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.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?