Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.