255 Quotes by George Sand

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.