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• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• A belief is not true because it is useful. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
• In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)...
• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel...
• Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
  Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
  Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity....
• My rage is not malicious; like a spark of fire by steel enforced out of a flint it is no sooner kindled, but extinct.
  -- Goffe...
• A man without passion would be like a body without a soul.
  Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body. -- Edward Abbey...