“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well
“Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end
“The common happiness of two people is nothing more as two small, incised lines next to each other into infinity.
“Never seek to tell thy love, love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently, invisibly.