Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at read more

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; read more

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that read more

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way read more

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man read more

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

I was adored once too.

I was adored once too.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be read more

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.