Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
To live without loving is not really to live.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
Reason is not what decides love.
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
