Henry Adams Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

  Henry Adams

  Strength, Sleep, Devil

• To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

  Henry Adams

  Life, Trust, Education

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.286, Harvard University Press

• The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

  Henry Adams

  Sex, Women, Humorous

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