306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.