First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of read more

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; read more

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves...

Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.

Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and read more

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise not thou the read more

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the
Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.