So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

... People trifle with love. Now, I deny that love is a strong passion. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. Envy me – envy me, sir,” he added with a chuckle, “I am a coward!

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing.

Love- what is love?A great and aching heart;Wrung hands;and silence;and a long despair

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Wine is bottled poetry.