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

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

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

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

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

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Do not sanction an absurdity.

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

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

- 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.

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

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

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

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

- Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis