“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark
“We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
“When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”