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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.