Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.