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

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.