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

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

—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

Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!

—Henri Frederic Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

—Don Herold

Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential

—Winston Churchill

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

—John Keats

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

—George Orwell