Love’s like the measles—­all the worse when it comes late in life.  —­Jerrold.

Love is strong as death.  Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:  if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.—­Song of Solomon 8:6-7.

Love is the fulfilling of the law.—­Romans 13:10.

Love’s sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.—­Bovee.

A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.—­Washington Irving.

Love, it has been said, flows downward.  The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?—­Hare.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.  —­Hazlitt.

Who never loved ne’er suffered; he feels nothing,
Who nothing feels but for himself alone. 
—­Young.

Love why do we one passion call,
When ’tis a compound of them all? 
Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet,
In all their equipages meet;
Where pleasures mix’d with pains appear,
Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. 

          
                          —­Swift.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.—­Henry home.

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

But there’s nothing half so sweet in life
As love’s young dream. 
—­Moore.

They do not love, that do not show their love. 
—­Shakespeare.

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.  It serves for food and raiment.—­Longfellow.

That you may be beloved, be amiable.—­Ovid.

All these inconveniences are incidents to love:  reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.—­Terence.

Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us.  Friendship, on the contrary, is a long time forming; it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.—­La Bruyere.

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.