George Sand

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

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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

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