Henry Adams

Birth: 1872-06-06 , Lawrence

Death: 1936-03-04 , Sydney

Henry Adams was an American historian, journalist, professor, and novelist. Descended from a prominent American family, Adams dedicated himself to analyzing the history and culture of the United States, especially the period of its founding. His work is known for its critical insight and its exploration of the forces that shape society.

2,168

Views

Poems List

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will is right; that which they reject is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one’s pillow.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Comments (0)

ShareOn Facebook WhatsApp X

NoComments

Henry Brooks Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and had a diverse academic and writing career. He was a professor of history at Harvard and later dedicated himself to writing books and essays. His most famous work, 'The Education of Henry Adams,' is a philosophical autobiography that reflects on his intellectual development and his search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Adams also wrote detailed biographies and histories of important American figures and the country's political development. He died in Washington, D.C.