I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
From Henry Adams
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
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