Jeseph Joubert

"Children need models more than they need critics. "

"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. "

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. "

"Imagination is the eye of the soul. "

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

"Justice is the truth in action. "

"Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty "

"Never cut what you can untie. "

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

"The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it. "

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. "

"To teach is to learn twice. "

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. "