Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my read more

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.

Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.