Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic AmielA modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic AmielDreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Henri Frederic AmielI 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 Amiel