To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri Frederic AmielPure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic AmielPut personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Henri Frederic AmielCriticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.
Henri Frederic Amiel