Joseph Joubert

“Children need models rather than critics.”

“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”

“How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die--but asleep!”

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

“It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.”

“Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.”

“Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.”

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”