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Henry Adams

  • Friends are born, not made.
    (topic: friendship)


  • You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
    (topic: love)


  • The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
    (topic: men and women)