"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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