Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Um grande amor é um crédito aberto a uma potência tão voraz, que o momento da falência chega sempre.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.