George Sand

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ”

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ”

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. ”