401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

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.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.