Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.