It is the hardest thing in love to feign it where it is not, or hide it where it is; but it is easier counterfeited than concealed. The face of her we love is the fairest of sights, and her voice the sweetest harmony in the world. A man is more reserved in his friend’s concerns than in his own; a woman, on the contrary, keeps her own concerns better than another’s. A woman will think herself slighted if she is not courted, yet pretends to know herself too well to believe your flattery. Absence is to love what fasting is to the body; a little stimulates it, but a long abstinence is fatal. The greatest pleasure of life is love; the greatest treasure, contentment; the greatest possession, health; the greatest ease is sleep; and the greatest medicine, a true friend.
LOVE.
“It helps us to bear with the trouble,
It helps us to stand in the strife,
It brightens the skies for the sorrowing eyes,
And lightens the burdens of life.
“It makes the rose bloom in the desert,
And brings down the dew on the sod;
The tempest may beat, but the pathway is sweet
With the roses and lilies of God.”