Joseph Roux

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

— Joseph Roux

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

— Joseph Roux

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

— Joseph Roux

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

— Joseph Roux

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

— Joseph Roux

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

— Joseph Roux

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

— Joseph Roux

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

— Joseph Roux

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

— Joseph Roux

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

— Joseph Roux