Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.
Agnes RepplierThe worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
Agnes RepplierThe diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes RepplierWhy do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.
Agnes Repplier