A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.
Henri Frederic AmielAction is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic AmielCommon sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic AmielOrder means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel