The hottest love has the coldest end.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills:...

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or...

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.