Never cut what you can untie.

Quote by Joseph Joubert

Topics: Common Sense Quotes, Patience Quotes

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

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

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

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in...

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

Children need models rather than critics.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the...

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the...

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms....

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms....

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he...

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he...

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things...

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things...

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness it is usually returned

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.