"How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice!"

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

"When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget."

"When I saw you, I was afraid of meeting you. When I met you, I was afraid of kissing you. When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid of losing you."

"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."

"No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love."

"If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul."

"Open your heart and take us in, Love—love and me."

"This endeavor to bring it about, that our own likes and dislikes should meet with universal approval, is really ambition; wherefore we see that everyone by nature desires (appetere), that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a desire is equally present in all, everyone stands in everyone else's way, and in wishing to be loved or praised by all, all become mutually hateful."

"You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."

"And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly."

": It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new."

"Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth."

"There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die."

"Du bist wie eine Blume, so hold, so schön und rein; Ich shau' dich an und Wehmut schleicht mir ins Herz hinein."

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

": Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide."

"Love understands love; it needs no talk."

"The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold."

"What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart."

"Es ist eine alte Geschichte, Doch bleibt sie immer neu."

"Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee, A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee."

"Love's like the flies, and, drawing-room or garret, goes all over a house."

"Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be."

"As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us."

"Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart."

": If I love you, what business is that of yours?"

"Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an?"

"Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life—my all that's mine!"

"O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of love."

": Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age."

"In einem Augenblick gewährt die Liebe Was Mühe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht."

"Man liebt an dem Mädchen was es ist, Und an dem Jüngling was er ankündigt."

"Und Lust und Liebe sind die Fittige zu grossen Thaten."

": It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms."

": Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

": Girls we love for what they are; Young men for what they promise to be."

"Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love."

"Love, Love, my Love. The best things are the truest! When the earth lies shadowy dark below Oh, then the heavens are bluest!"

"I love her doubling and anguish; I love the love she withholds, I love my love that loveth her, And anew her being moulds."

"Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me."

"Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live."

"Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness."

"I saw and loved."

"I seek for one as fair and gay, But find none to remind me, How blest the hours pass'd away With the girl I left behind me."

"Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey."

": But one always returns to one's first loves."

"He is not a lover who does not love for ever."

"Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,— Golden curls, and quiver, and bow."