“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
“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