Henri Frederic Amiel

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less…

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are…

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist…

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope…

Order is power…

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

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy…

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision…

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart…

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings…

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming…

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the…

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as…

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all…