Quotes from Henri Amiel

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

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.

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.