Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. — 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
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. — 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 Image
Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm. — 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
Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion? — 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
We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
