Quotes by Adams, Henry Brooks

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs sil >>

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stop >>

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. >>

Quotations about Words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of >>

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, >>

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dum >>

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

Adams, Henry Brooks