Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
My debt to you, Beloved,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
We loved with a love that was more than love.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.