“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.”

“Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.”

“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”

“Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.”

“They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.”