3 December 2020 George Sand Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
3 December 2020 George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
3 December 2020 George Sand Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
3 December 2020 George Sand The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
3 December 2020 George Sand Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
3 December 2020 George Sand Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
3 December 2020 George Sand Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
3 December 2020 George Sand 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.