Quote: Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Children need models rather than critics. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Chance generally favors the prudent. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Imagination is the eye of the soul. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Ornaments were invented by modesty. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Politeness is the flower of humanity. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. [Joseph Joubert]
Quote: Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. [Joseph Joubert]