Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

No one means all he says, and yet few say all they mean. For words are slippery and thought is vicious.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.