Adams/places

Famous quotes containing the words adams and/or places:

    No European spring had shown him the same intermixture of delicate grace and passionate depravity that marked the Maryland May.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)