To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Who, being loved, is poor?

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.