Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

For he who loves must live.

For he who loves must live.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought read more

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable read more

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.