Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. South.
Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. Scott.
Love is merely a madness. As You Like It, iii. 2.
Love is mightier than indignation. Ward Beecher.
Love is more pleasing than marriage, because 10 romances are more amusing than history. Chamfort.
Love is neither bought nor sold. Pr.
Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham.
Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more. Racine.
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. Carlyle.
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which 15 shows us what is most worthy of regard. J. M. Barrie.