When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. – William Shakespeare
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. – Kent Nerburn
Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. – Thomas Paine
