Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence;… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — 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
