"Simplicity is the essence of the great,..." - Quote by George Sand

“Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.”

“The mind has no sex.”

“The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.”

“As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder.”

“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.”

“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”

“Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.”

“A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.”

“The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.”