The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.--WALTER SCOTT.
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.--A.B. EDWARDS.
Let those love now who never loved before, Let those that always loved now love the more. --PARNELL.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love. --SCOTT.
If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished.--QUARLES.
Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life. --JERROLD.
Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.--SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.--ROMANS 13:10.
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.--BOVEE.
A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.--WASHINGTON IRVING.
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?--HARE.
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. --HAZLITT.
Who never loved ne'er suffered; he feels nothing, Who nothing feels but for himself alone. --YOUNG.
Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. --SWIFT.
Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.--HENRY HOME.
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. --POPE.