Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?