Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.