"Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope, And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath In that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales. They said that Love would die when Hope was gone. And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; At last she sought out Memory, and they trod The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope, And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears."

"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth."

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

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

"I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come."

"My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still."

"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!"

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

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

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

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

"We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love."

"Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths."

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

"Es ist eine der grössten Himmelsgaben, So ein lieb' Ding im Arm zu haben."

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

"Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. … I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die."

"Free love, so bound, were freëst," said the King. "Let love be free; free love is for the best: And, after heaven, on our dull side of death, What should be best, if not so pure a love Clothed in so pure a loveliness? yet thee She failed to bind, though being, as I think, Unbound as yet, and gentle, as I know."

"You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one."

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

"Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you — farewell; And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more."

"She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red."

"Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more."

"They say it is to know the union with love that the soul takes union with the body."

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

"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."

"As love knoweth no lawes, so it regardeth no conditions."

"Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love."

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."

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

"How come we don't always know when love begins, but we always know when it ends?"

"God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone."

"Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace."

"If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being."

"As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best."

"'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all."

"What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them. And so we cannot avoid this conclusion: it is biologically evident that to gain control of passion and so make it serve spirit must be a condition of progress. Sooner or later, then, the world will brush aside our incredulity and take this step : because whatever is the more true comes out into the open, and whatever is better is ultimately realized. The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."

"For love reflects the thing beloved."

"Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being."

"The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe."

"A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love."

"Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is. And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky; in the reckless exuberance of spring; in the severe abstinence of grey winter; in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame; in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright; in living; in the exercise of all our powers; in the acquisition of knowledge; in fighting evils; in dying for gains we never can share. Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to show that the bonds of law can only be explained by love; they are like body and soul. Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover."

"God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience."