Joseph Joubert Quotes - Page 11

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Heaven is for those who think of it.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

Justice is the truth in action.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

The soul paints itself in our machines.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

A temperate style is alone classical.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.