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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert

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

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Space is the stature of God.
Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph Joubert

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Joseph Joubert

The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Joseph Joubert

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

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert

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

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert