To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Amiel
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. – Henri Amiel
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Amiel
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. – Henri Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. – Henri Amiel
To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. – Henri Amiel
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931