"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."

"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."

"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."

"Love can do much, but duty more."

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."

"Paradise is always where love dwells."

"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish."

"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship."

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We always love those that admire us, but we do not always love those we admire."

"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."

"Self-love is the greatest flatterer in the world."

"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love."

"Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"In love we often doubt what we most believe."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection."