It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is ex…

- Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

- Agnes Repplier

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be soft…

- Agnes Repplier

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

- Agnes Repplier

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee …

- Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

- Agnes Repplier

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

- Agnes Repplier

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

- Agnes Repplier

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing d…

- Agnes Repplier