Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
Agnes RepplierIt was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.
Agnes RepplierMiserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
Agnes RepplierOur dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
Agnes Repplier