“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
“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.
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished