“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
“There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished