Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
Henri Frederic AmielAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic AmielDestiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic AmielTo 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.
Henri Frederic Amiel