Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.