There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
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When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The woman that deliberates is lost.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third read more

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all read more

In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.