It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works intelligence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

— Henri Frederic Amiel