Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant—a harpy that devours everything. Swift.
Love is a boy by poets spoiled. S. Butler.
Love is a debt which inclination always pays, 30 obligation never. Pascal.
Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.
Love is a personal debt. George Herbert.
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. Talleyrand.
Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds. Landor.
Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within 35 his bosom glows. Pr.
Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. Alfred De Musset.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.