"True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind."

": Love is an egotism of two."

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

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

"Love laid his sleepless head On a thorny rose bed: And his eyes with tears were red, And pale his lips as the dead."

"To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above."

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

"Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow."

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

"Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight."

"Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewust kühner."

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

": A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold."

"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."

"Scilicent insano nemo in amore videt."

"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."

"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?"

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

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

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

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

": Everybody in love is blind."

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

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

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

"Auro contra cedo modestum amatorem."

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

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

": 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."

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

"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."

"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!"

": One always returns to his first love."

"L'amour est un égoïsme à deux."

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

": In the smallest cot there is room enough for a loving pair."

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

"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."

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

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

"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!"

"And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears."

"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."

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

"Odit verus amor nec patitur moras."

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

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