The first duty of love is to listen.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.