255 Quotes by 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.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

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.