Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound. Joseph Joubert More Quotes by Joseph Joubert More Quotes From Joseph Joubert Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. Joseph Joubert standardsgeniusmind In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself. Joseph Joubert clothesyouthage TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth. Joseph Joubert hostilemoments Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop. Joseph Joubert vesselattention Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. Joseph Joubert wrinklespainchildren Everything that is exact is short. Joseph Joubert simplicity Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate. Joseph Joubert appreciatecriticsable You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. Joseph Joubert pebblesrolling-alonggrain How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep! Joseph Joubert growing-uppainpeople Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. Joseph Joubert fancyusewriting Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. Joseph Joubert qualityagemen The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning. Joseph Joubert stylehalfbeautiful The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. Joseph Joubert lightreflectionwings Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny. Joseph Joubert destinyinspirationalmen Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. Joseph Joubert impulseactionlife When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. Joseph Joubert relieftroubleworry The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. Joseph Joubert voiceairwriting Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. Joseph Joubert beautiful-thoughtsunderstandingbeautiful The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. Joseph Joubert militaryreasonsound The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. Joseph Joubert finishingcolororder
