"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self." ~ Agnes Repplier
"Leisure has a value of its own. It is not a mere handmaid of labor; it is something we should know how to cultivate, to use, and to enjoy. It has a distinct and honorable place wherever nations are released from the pressure of their first rude needs, their first homely toil, and rise to happier levels of grace and intellectual repose." ~ Agnes Repplier
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice. Musicians know the value of chords; painters know the value of colors; writers are often so blind to the value of words that they are content with a bare expression of their thoughts, disdaining the "labor of the file," and confident that the phrase first seized is for them the phrase of inspiration. ~ Agnes Repplier
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth." ~ Agnes Repplier
"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements." ~ Agnes Repplier
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self." ~ Agnes Repplier
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." ~ Agnes Repplier
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there." ~ Agnes Repplier
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals." ~ Agnes Repplier
It is difficult, at any time, to deprive wit of its social or political surroundings; it is impossible to drive it back to those deeper, simpler sources whence humor springs unveiled. ~ Agnes Repplier
"War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world." ~ Agnes Repplier
