Henry Adams
  • The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  • Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

  • Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

  • He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  • 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.