Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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• Henry Adams:

  No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

• Henry Adams:

  Morality is a private and costly luxury.

• Henry Adams:

  I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined

• Henry Adams:

  Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

• Henry Adams:

  No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is

• Henry Adams:

  All experience is an arch, to build upon.

• Henry Adams:

  At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

• Henry Adams:

  Intimates are predestined.

• Henry Adams:

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

• Henry Adams:

  Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.