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
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.... — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable. — 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
