Quotes
In that book which is
My memory...
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words...
Here begins a new life.
Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
all things in a single volume bound by Love,
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...
one can no more be without the other
than the reasoning mind without its reason.
Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
This woman was as necessary to his life as eating and drinking.
A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
For it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded either with the reciproque, or with an inward and secret contempt.
For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.
Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.
There is no soul so vile, no heart so barbarous, that it is not susceptible of some kind of attachment.
Nothing shows a man’s true inclinations better than the character of those whom he loves.
