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

[W]hy should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?

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.

[W]e ... 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 daughters; and the story of its struggles, sufferings, misdeeds, and glorious atonements is the story that keeps alive in all our hearts that sentiment of patriotism, without which we are speeding swiftly on our path to national corruption and decay.