"Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. " — Edmund Burke

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should refuse an offer of marriage

Source: Emma (1815)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Source: Paracelsus (1835)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart

Source: Emma (1815)

Edmund Burke Quote