When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. – Joseph Joubert
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. – Joseph Joubert
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, “Economy” #infj