Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be… — 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 it and hold its power within us. — 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
