Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. Ruskin.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. Emerson.

Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. Pr.

Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft. Ruffini.

Love betters what is best, / Even here below, but more in heaven above. Wordsworth.

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. Geibel.

Love can do much, but duty still more. Goethe.

Love can hope where reason would despair. 5 Lyttleton.

Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. Pr.

Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. Ward Beecher.