George Sand

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must safeguard like a treasure, not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words and inexact, pedantic arguments.

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

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

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

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older one climbs with surprising strides.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the book in the fire.