Joseph Joubert

Children have more need of models than critics.

Children have more need of models than critics.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who read more

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it

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

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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

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