It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.
They do not love that do not show their love.
For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Speak low, if you speak love.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Love is being stupid together.
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.