Love is a celestial harmony
Of likely hearts.
Hymn in Honor of Beauty. E. SPENSER.
There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought.
Endymion. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
It is not virtue, wisdom, valor, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit
That woman's love can win, or long inherit.
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.
Samson Agonistes. MILTON.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Rape of the Lock, Canto V. A. POPE.
Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still—
Is human love the growth of human will?
Lara, Canto II. LORD BYRON.
I know not why
I love this youth; and I have heard you say,
Love's reason's without reason.
Cymbeline, Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Love goes toward love as school-boys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Love the Only Price of Love. SIR W. RALEIGH.