"Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet— Fail, Sun and Breath!—yet, for thy peace, she shall endure."

"A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress."

"Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self."

": Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever."

": A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold."

"Oh! she was good as she was fair. None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her."

": He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all."

"Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep."

": If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power."

"Credula res amor est."

"My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse!"

"Qui amat, tamen hercle si esurit, nullum esurit."

"Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem."

": He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock."

"O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes."

": Everybody in love is blind."

"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love."

"Ach die Zeiten der Liebe rollen nicht zurück, sondern ewig weiter hinab."

": Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's."

"Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner."

"As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine."

"The hours I spent with thee, dear heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; I count them over, every one apart, My rosary, my rosary."

"Qui finem quæris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris."

": It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods."

"Quicquid Amor jussit non est contemnere tutum. Regnat, et in dominos jus habet ille deos."

"Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis."

"Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur, Majestas et amor."

": Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together."

": Love is a credulous thing."

"Otia si tollas, periere cupidinis arcus."

"Let those love now who never lov'd before, Let those who always loved now love the more."

"The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise."

"What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting. It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal, Whose flame creeps in at every hole!"

"Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men."

"Amor et melle et felle est fœcundissimus: Gustu dat dulce, amarum ad satietatem usque aggerit."

": Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety."

": Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold."

"Qui in amore præcipitavit pejus perit, quam si saxo saliat."

"Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies."

"Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy."

"Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt."

": Jupiter from on high laughs at the perjuries of lovers."