Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."

"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."

"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."

"Uncertainty is the refuge of hope."

"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."

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

"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."

"True humility is contentment."

"To marry unequally is to suffer equally."

"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."

"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."

"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."