Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand

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.
George Sand

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
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.
George Sand

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

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

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

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand

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


Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand

No human creature can give orders to love.
George Sand

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
George Sand

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand

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

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.
George Sand

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