Joseph Joubert

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Space is the stature of God.

Pleasures are always children pains always have wrinkles.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

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

Never cut what you can untie.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

The mind conceives with pain but it brings forth with delight.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

To teach is to learn twice.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone but thyself.

The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory but progress.

Grace is in garments in movements in manners, beauty in the nude and in forms. This is true of bodies, but when we speak of feelings beauty is in their spirituality and grace in their moderation.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.