True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is read more

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no read more

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?

Fair and softly goes far.

Fair and softly goes far.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.