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.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, read more

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I read more

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.

Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the read more

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.

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.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.