In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.
AGNES REPPLIERHumor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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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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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
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