"Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!"

"In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

"Magis gauderes quod habueras, quam moereres quod amiseras."

": O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love."

"O dass sie ewig grünen bliebe, Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe."

"Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück, Ich habe gelebt und geliebt."

": Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists."

"Arm in Arm mit dir, So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert in die Schranken."

"Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way."

": I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved."

": Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation)."

"Cupid "the little greatest god.""

"Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing."

": One always returns to his first love."

"Et l'on revient toujours à ses premiers amours."

"L'amour est un égoïsme à deux."

"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."

"Love is the fulfilling of the law."

"Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God."

": Love is an egotism of two."

"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."

": A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold."

"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."

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

"Die Liebe vermindert die weibliche Feinheit und verstärkt die männliche."

"Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner."

"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."

"Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."

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

": 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."

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

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

"Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt."

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

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

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

"Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?"

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

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

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

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

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

"Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte Für ein glücklich liebend Paar."

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

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

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

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

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