I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which read more

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

He is rich that is satisfied.

He is rich that is satisfied.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.