Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

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

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

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.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Joseph Joubert

Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert