“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things”

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. ”

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low”

“Thou art to me a delicious torment”

“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”