“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances