Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplierwas an American essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1855
CountryUnited States of America
delight guests leisure
Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
years example construction
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
lying book looks
the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
writing men generosity
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
history morality interest
History is not written in the interests of morality.
education brother children
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
fall sobriety tree
The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
failure judgement may
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
race intelligence depravity
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
views doe indifference
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
friendship always-trying giving
It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.