Love is a child that talks in broken language,
Yet then he speaks most plain.
—Dryden.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived.—Erasmus.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.—Burton.
It is possible that a man can be so changed by love, that one could not recognize him to be the same person.—Terence.
Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.—Abel Stevens.
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.—Holmes.
True love is humble, thereby is it known;
Girded for service, seeking not its own;
Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.
—Abraham Coles.
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.—Beecher.
Man.—Man is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.—1 Cor. 11:7.
Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?—Shakespeare.