Le VRI est top simple, IL fact y arriver tours par LE compline."[Letter to Armand Barnes, 12 May 1867]

— George Sand

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

— George Sand

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

— George Sand

No human creature can give orders to love.

— George Sand

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

— George Sand

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

— George Sand

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

— George Sand

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

— George Sand

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes a certain degree of courage self-denial to a point love of work and above all a clear conscience.

— George Sand

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

— George Sand