"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
"Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures."
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Source: Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
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