Henry Brooke Adams Quote

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable

Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident