"If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’ if I have rejoiced over my great wealth, the fortune my hands had gained, if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor, so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand offered them a kiss of homage, then these also would be sins to be judged, for I would have been unfaithful to God on high."

"In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just."

"Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee."

"As our fathers trusted humbly, teach us Lord to trust thee still."

"My body aches from mistakes betrayed by lust We lied to each other so much that in nothing we trust"

"That, in tracing the shade, I shall find out the sun, Trust to me!"

"Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust."

"I will say to Jehovah: “You are my refuge and my stronghold, My God in whom I trust.”"

"Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu!"

"Love rules without rules."

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

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

"Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever."

"The unconquerable pang of despised love."

"He loves not well whose love is bold! I would not have thee come too nigh. The sun's gold would not seem pure gold Unless the sun were in the sky: To take him thence and chain him near Would make his beauty disappear."

"For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast."

"Love is the center of holiness. Loving God above all and loving others like ourselves summarize the Ten commandments."

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

"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."

"O, rank is good, and gold is fair, And high and low mate ill; But love has never known a law Beyond its own sweet will!"

"For all true love is grounded on esteem."

": Who can deceive a lover?"

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

"I'm sorry that I spell'd the word; I hate to go above you, Because"—the brown eyes lower fell,— "Because, you see, I love you!"

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

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

"At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then—she only loved the rose; And then—herself alone; and then— She knew not what, but now—she knows."

"Perjuria ridet amantium Jupiter et ventos irrita ferre jubet."

": Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea, thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn."

": At lovers' perjuries Jove laughs and throws them idly to the winds."

"The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,— That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee."

"Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies— Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer."

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

"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."

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

"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."

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

"I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death."

"Werther had a love for Charlotte, Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter."

"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!"

"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."

"Love better is than Fame."

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

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