A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.