Love is the second prevailing virtue, that adorns her character. Without it she is like a closed blossom which exhibits neither its beauty or its fragrance; love reveals her inward mystery. – Frederick A. Rauch, “Of Woman,” Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Includ
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love? – Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?