to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
Agnes RepplierThe comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Agnes RepplierIt is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes RepplierDiaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
Agnes Repplier