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.”

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

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

“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.”

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”

“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.”

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

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