I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.
Henri Frederic AmielAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic AmielFor purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel