George Sand

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.