“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.”

“It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.""Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.”

“Where love is, there God is also.”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love is only legitimate, reasonable, and lasting when it is based on the respect and love of one human being for another.”

“Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. ”