Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.

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.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all read more

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.