A biography for Joseph Jouberthasn’t been written yet.
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
“One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.”
“Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“Never cut what you can untie.”
“We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”
“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”
“Children need models rather than critics.”
“The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.”
“Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
“All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.”
“Space is the stature of God.”
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
“Innocence is always unsuspicious.”
“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”