Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Quotes

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.

Do not sanction an absurdity.