Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918
Harvard graduation photo (1858)
Born: 16 February 1838, Boston, Massachusetts
Died: 27 March 1918, Washington City
His father Charles Francis Adams was a statesman of note, later serving as minister to England during the Civil War. His grandfather was John Quincy Adams, the sixth US president, and his great grandfather was John Adams, the second president. His mother was the daughter of the wealthiest family in Boston. The family home included the largest private library in Boston. Naturally, he went to Harvard. After graduation in 1858 Henry began the classical "Grand Tour", then served as private secretary to his father from 1861 to 1868 in the embassy at London. He took up journalism on his return, then was named Professor of Mediaeval History at Harvard. He wrote well-regarded history, biography, a couple of novels, and his autobiography (The Education of Henry Adams) won a Pulitzer.
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- A friend in power is a friend lost. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. permalink
Henry Adams - A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. permalink
Henry Adams - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. permalink
Henry Adams - Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. permalink
Henry Adams - All experience is an arch, to build upon. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. permalink
Henry Adams - As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. permalink
Henry Adams - As for Henry Adams, fresh from Europe and chaos of another sort, he plunged at once into a lurid atmosphere of politics, quite heedless of any education or forethought. His past melted away. The prodigal was welcomed home, but not even his father asked a malicious question about the Pandects. At the utmost, he hinted at some shade of prodigality by quietly inviting his son to act as private secretary during the winter in Washington, as though any young man who could afford to throw away two winters on the Civil Law could afford to read Blackstone for another winter without a master. The young man was beyond satire, and asked only a pretext for throwing all education to the east wind. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. permalink
Henry Adams - Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907) - Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. permalink
Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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