[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

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis

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