I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

He was the grandson and great-grandson of John Quincy Adams and John Adams respectively. Henry Brooks Adams (February 16 1838 – March 27 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist historian academic and novelist.