401 Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet.

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

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....

The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it.