The Education of Henry Adams Quotes

“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“For success in the life imposed on him he needed, as afterwards appeared, the facile use of only four tools: Mathematics, French, German, and Spanish. With these, he could master in a very short time any special branch of inquiry, and feel at home in any society.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“For success in life in the life imposed on him he needed, as afterwards appeared, the facile use of only four tools: Mathematics, French, German, and Spanish. With these, he could master in a very short time any special branch of inquiry, and feel at home in any society.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Grant [....] had no right to exist. He should have been extinct for ages. [....] That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called — and should actually and truly be — the highest product of the most advanced evolution, made evolution ludicrous. [....] The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.”
― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams