George Sand

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

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

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.

No human creature can give orders to love.

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible."[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]

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

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.

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

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

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

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

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

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows 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.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one__ self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.