Joseph Joubert

Space is the stature of God.

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Ask the young. They know everything.

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

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

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.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

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

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Justice is the truth in action.

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

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

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

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

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.