Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
– George Sand
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.
– George Sand
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
– George Sand
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
– George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
– 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.
– 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.
– George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– 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.
– 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.
– 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.