Adams, Henry Brooks

Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. letter, Dec. 17, 1908....


• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly de...
Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. letter, Sept. 20, 1911...


• American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth...
Democracy


• Ratcliffe was a great statesman. The smoothness of his manipulation was marvelous. No other man in p...
• A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American ...
• She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towar...
• It was this practical sense and cool will that won over Mrs. Lee, who was woman enough to assume tha...
• Of all things in life, Mrs. Lee held this kind of court-service in contempt, for she was something m...
“Eccentricity”


• The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine-forest. The English...
Esther


• The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. “If there is still ...
• “Poor Esther!” said he gloomily. “She has been brought up among men, and is not used to harness. If ...
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