C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Madame de Genlis

Do not sanction an absurdity.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

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.

Lucky people are her favorites.

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

Ugliness, after virtue, to the best guardian of a young woman.