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.

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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology. Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone—but never hustled.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one’s nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

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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.