I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Agnes RepplierArt... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Agnes RepplierIf we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
Agnes Repplierreal letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
Agnes RepplierThere is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
Agnes Repplier