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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.