[M]y inexperienced heart was stormed. I… for a week or so lived on thought and tea. But who has not fasted thus long when first absorbed by the universal passion! – “Diary of a Surgeon,” in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consist

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. – Voltaire

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670