Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that… — 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
