"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
"Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside."
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
"Love is the poetry of the senses!"
"for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea"