George Sand

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

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

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.

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.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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

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.