For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

If I love you, what does that matter to you!

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]