Agnes Repplier

"Had the Pilgrim Fathers been met on Plymouth Rock by immigration officials; had their children been placed immediately in good free schools, and given the care of doctors, dentists, and nurses; had th…"

"We can reckon the cost of misdirected emotions by the price which the past has paid for them. We know the full significance of that irresponsible sympathy which ... admits no difference between attack…"

"It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."

"War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world."

"...we ... know very well that we never learn unless we like our lesson, and never behave ourselves unless inspired by precept and example. The history of every nation is the heritage of its sons and d…"

"The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. ... we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a…"

"Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the Earth peopled as ever by the inept."

"People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything."