George Sand

"Freedom is the first wish of our soul."

"It is time to learn."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"Dance as though no one is watching you."

"There is no happiness in love except at the end of an English novel."

"A gracious life is not always grateful."

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can achieve."

"Variety is the only thing that interests me."

"A man worthy of a woman with fine feelings and a beautiful mind."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of all human virtue."

"Women are the priestesses of truth."

"Work while you have the light."

"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do."

"I need it to survive, like I need food and air."

"The beautiful is eternal."

"One must be honest with oneself."

"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

"Art ennobles the character and improves the heart."

"Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind."

"Life has no smooth road for any of us."

"He is happy who does not believe himself to be wretched."

"Never scorn anyone who can be your friend."

"There is something rather magical about time."

"Every existence deprived of friendship is sad and lonely."

"The world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"Talent is a long patience."

"Music is the frosting on the cake of life."

"Those who are kept down are brought up and then put down worse."

"Faith lies in the strength to do good."