Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.

Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.

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.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over read more

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.

Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, read more

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.