"Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that..." - Quote by George Sand

“Vanity is the quicksand of reason.”

“We must have a passion in life.”

“Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.”

“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

“It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”

“Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.”

“People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.”

“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”