Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Quotes

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

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

Do not sanction an absurdity.

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

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

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

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

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