You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.

Thy name is in my heart as in a sheep-bell
from Cyrano.

It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in read more

It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a read more

There can be no piece of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.

Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and read more

A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.