"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."

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before."

"To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life."

"O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!"

"Cupid "the little greatest enemy.""

"Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes: Not the light gossamer stirs with less; But never a cable that holds so fast Through all the battles of wave and blast."

"Who love too much, hate in the like extreme."

"For love deceives the best of woman kind."

"Si sine amore, jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque."

": If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes."

"What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair."

"If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant—'We trust in thee!'"

"From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale."

"But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead."

"Love has a tide!"

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

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

"I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth."

"When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But—why did you kick me downstairs?"

"What's this dull town to me? Robin's not near— He whom I wished to see, Wished for to hear; Where's all the joy and mirth Made life a heaven on earth? O! they're all fled with thee, Robin Adair."

"The hawk unto the open sky, The red deer to the wold; The Romany lass for the Romany lad, As in the days of old."

"Sing, for faith and hope are high— None so true as you and I— Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!""

"By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say: "Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!""

"If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray, "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!""

"Love begins with love."

": The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone."

"Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence."

": O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu."

"The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in what we excite."

"The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her."

"Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'être ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux mêmes."

": The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves."

"Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by the Hand above— A woman's heart, and a woman's life, And a woman's wonderful love?"

"I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather, The bonnie, bloomin' heather, Mary, ma Scotch Blue-bell."