A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — 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
