The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
AGNES REPPLIERThe impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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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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To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
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People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.
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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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Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
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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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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
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Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
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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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
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Necessity knows no Sunday.
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