Quotes from Henry B. Adams

Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame...