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.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

They do not love that do not show their love.