Joubert, Joseph Quotes
Space is the stature of God.
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.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. .
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The great part of abstract terms are sha vacuum.
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
Antiquity! -- like its ruins better than its reconstructions.