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.
Agnes RepplierBooks that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes RepplierNo rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
Agnes RepplierArt... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Agnes Repplier