A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Every loves the love before In a duller dress.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

We never, then, love a person, but only qualities.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people.