Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We love the things we love for what they are.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.