Agnes Repplier quotes

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
- Agnes Repplier

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
- 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

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.
- Agnes Repplier

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
- Agnes Repplier

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
- Agnes Repplier

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

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.
- Agnes Repplier

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
- Agnes Repplier