Meandering on and on . . .

Today is the birthday of Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918), journalist, historian, academic and novelist.

In 1907 he published a small private edition of his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, and the work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919.

"These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
— Henry Adams

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
— Henry Adams

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
— Henry Adams

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
— Henry Adams

"What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying."
— Henry Adams

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