Henry adams

The proper study of mankind is woman.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.