Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

We must have the courage to be happy.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all...

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.