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 B. AdamsAbout author
- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 16, 1838
- Died: March 27, 1918
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I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men stronger than those men of old who were dominated by their philosophy and steeped in their religion? Whether bondage be better than freedom may be discussed. But that their bondage came to more than our freedom it will be difficult for any one to deny.
Gilbert K. Chesterton