To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri Frederic AmielBefore giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
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 AmielTo feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
Henri Frederic Amiel