We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
AGNES REPPLIERThe most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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Whatever has “wit enough to keep it sweet” defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.
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Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
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I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn’t, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
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The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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