Quotes

…it nags at him, that, despite mankind’s enormous advances over the millennia,there has been no corresponding progress in in understanding the human spirit. For

Many of Henry Adams most important books, including “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres” (1904), and The Education of Henry Adams (1907) were originally privately printed.

I had rather enjoy my own mind than the fortune of another man. What is the poor pride arising from a magnificient house, a

Rugby league provides our cultural adrenline. Its a physical manifestation of our rules of life, comradeship, honest endeavor, and a staunch, often ponderous allegiance

“For the first time I begin to feel poor and peevish, like a child left out of a game. Not to have fifty millions

“transgenerational ideological dispensation” – and the critics called this book “disarmingly lucid”

All the forces of civilization in the house waged a battle of the most gallant, prolonged and sustained applause with the hoots and jeers

His (Henry James) rebellion against his fate involved a five year flirtation with the theater, which ended in the failure of his play “Guy

The American reviews of the The Bostonians are so hostile that the New York office of (henry) James’d publisher warns the home office to

A man may have as much wisdom in the possession of an affluent fortune as any beggar in the streets, or may enjoy a