Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Order is to arrangement what the soul is to the body, and what mind is to matter. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself… — 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