Love never reasons, but profusely gives—gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. Hannah More.
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. Carlyle.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Bible.
Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; / 5 God gave them to thee under lock and key. George Herbert.
Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many. W. Allston.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. Talleyrand.
Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. Carlyle.
Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state. Carlyle.
Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere 10 to find and value what is good. Goethe.
Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: / His motto—constancy, his creed—to part. Byron.