"There are no more thorough prudes than..." - Quote by George Sand

“One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.”

“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”

“Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.”

“He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.”

“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.”

“The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.”

“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”

“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.”