Joseph Joubert Quotations | Page 2

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.

Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.