Quotes by Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friends are born, not made.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.