We only understand that which already is within us.
From Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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