There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
AGNES REPPLIERAn historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
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There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
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It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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The most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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