When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come. – Joseph Joubert
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. – Joseph Joubert
It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up. – Joseph Joubert
It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech