"a woman's heart has no wrinkles...." - Quote by George Sand

“Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.”

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

“... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?”

“Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.”

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

“Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.”