There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
Agnes RepplierThe diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplierwhereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.
Agnes RepplierThere is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
Agnes Repplier