One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

A very small degree of hope js sufficient to cause the birth of love.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

The loving are the daring.

O, beauty, are you not enough? Why am I crying after love?