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 SandLife is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George SandWhen mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
George SandIt is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
George Sand