The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often… — Agnes Repplier Caress Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Busy Copy Share Image
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. — Agnes Repplier Given Copy Share Image
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. — Agnes Repplier Believer 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… — Agnes Repplier Giving Copy Share Image
When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught. — Agnes Repplier Draught 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… — Agnes Repplier Activity 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… — Agnes Repplier Absurdity Copy Share Image
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader. — Agnes Repplier Books 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,… — Agnes Repplier Admire Copy Share Image
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier Admire 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… — Agnes Repplier Attractive Copy Share Image
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It… — Agnes Repplier Captured Copy Share Image
Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment… — Agnes Repplier Cat Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that… — Agnes Repplier Comfortable 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 Add Copy Share Image
Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. — Agnes Repplier Believe Copy Share Image
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it… — Agnes Repplier Age Copy Share Image
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new… — Agnes Repplier Change Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of… — Agnes Repplier Enough Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Human beings Copy Share Image
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who… — Agnes Repplier Civilized Copy Share Image
