Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for others is genius.

Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Will localizes us thought universalizes us.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains

Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.

We only understand that which already within us.

Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Order is power.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Life is short. Be swift to love Make haste to be kind

Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love Make haste to be kind.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

The thirst for truth is not a French passion

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.