Agnes Repplier

"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…"

"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…"

"The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other."

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

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

"What the world asks now are state reforms and social reforms,—in other words, the reformation of our neighbours. What the Gospel asks, and has always asked, is the reformation of ourselves ... Mr. Che…"