I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a… — 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
