A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

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

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Ultimately love is everything.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

He whom love touches not walks in darkness

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.