William Ellery Channing Quote

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Love is the one bond of the universe, the heart of God, the life of his children: if animals can be loved, they are loveable; if they can love, they are yet more plainly loveable: love is eternal; how then should its object perish?