Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.Collection: Book
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.Collection: People
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.Collection: Lonely
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.Collection: Girl
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!Collection: Love
How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?Collection: Judging
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.Collection: Vanity
Do not sanction an absurdity.Collection: Sanctions