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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-- we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

They do not love that do not show their love.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.