There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
We do not judge the people we love.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
He that is jealous is not in love.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
