Time wasted is a theft from God.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

— Henri Frederic Amiel