No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
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 RepplierOur 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 RepplierThe great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.
Agnes Repplier