Henry Adams

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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 was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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