Quotes by Amiel, Henri Frederic

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be trouble >>

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thoug >>

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the m >>

Quotations about Giving

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of it >>

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. >>

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; >>

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.

Amiel, Henri Frederic