“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well
“Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls