“No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution
“Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him
“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future
“As for my frenzy for work, I will compare it to an attack of herpes.Source: The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
“To get drunk with ink is more worth while than to get drunk with brandy.Source: The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters