In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

To be in love is to surpass oneself.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Love is friendship set on fire.

It is something - it can be everything - to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.