If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
