There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
Henri Frederic AmielOur systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic AmielMaterialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic AmielMelancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
Henri Frederic Amiel