Famous quotes containing the words brooks and/or adams:
“The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman—Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)