| Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| A belief is not true because it is useful. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Love is faith, and one faith leads to another. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| All appears to change when we change. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| ...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Hope is only the love of life. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. Henri Frdric Amiel |
| You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering. Henri Frdric Amiel |