No man means all he says

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”     Henry Brooks Adams

“What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.”     Henry Brooks Adams

“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence–beginning with one’s own.”     Henry Brooks Adams

“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.”     Henry Brooks Adams

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”     Abigail Adams