255 Quotes by George Sand

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

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

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

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