"Art speaks only to the mind, whereas..." - Quote by George Sand

“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”

“I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.”

“honesty dies in selling itself.”

“Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.”

“The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.”

“I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.”

“The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.”

“I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”

“Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.”