In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual read more

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as read more

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

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.