Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with 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.