“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
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
“Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
“We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment
“If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.