“Love is a serious mental disease.”

“No human thing is of serious importance.”

“The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.”

“Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.”

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”

“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”