Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dulness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven.

You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

I may command where I adore.