Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share
