Joseph Joubert Coins Quotations

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!