One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. – 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
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his limits of fully realizing his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself. – James Agee