"They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity, In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell."

"Together linkt with adamantine chains."

": Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's."

"Sweetheart, when you walk my way, Be it dark or be it day; Dreary winter, fairy May, I shall know and greet you. For each day of grief or grace Brings you nearer my embrace; Love hath fashioned your dear face, I shall know you when I meet you."

"I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew."

"And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew."

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

"In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise."

"If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather."

"O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed."

": You must make a lover angry if you wish him to love."

"Tum, ut adsolet in amore et ira, jurgia, preces, exprobrutio, satisfactio."

"When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody."

"I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!"

"For love's humility is Love's true pride."

"And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old."

"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."

"Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret."

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

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

"Die Liebe wintert nicht; Nein, nein! Ist und bleibt Frühlings-Schein."

": Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring."

": Who can deceive a lover?"

"For all true love is grounded on esteem."

"And the King with his golden sceptre, The Pope with Saint Peter's key, Can never unlock the one little heart That is opened only to me. For I am the Lord of a Realm, And I am Pope of a See; Indeed I'm supreme in the kingdom That is sitting, just now, on my knee."

"What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love."

"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."

"The unconquerable pang of despised love."

"O dearer far than light and life are dear."

"While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest."

"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."

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

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

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

"Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem."

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

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

"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!"

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

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

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

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

": 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."

"Otia si tollas, periere cupidinis arcus."

": Love is a credulous thing."

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