Love Quotes — page 8

Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes.

knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, …

The end to which good men's libraries finally come is a melancholy subject. Few things are so much loved by some, and despised and neglected by others, as books, and specially theological books.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.

None knows the reason why this curse Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

"If I should cease to think of you at all for a prescribed time, I should find I could keep it up indefinitely. [...] You know that what you ask is impossible [...] I'm capable of nothing with regard to you," he went on, "but just of being …

No wonder the child loves the camp-fire. The camp-fire was the ancestor of the hearth—the first bright spot in that dark world out of which our forefathers groped their way so long ago.

But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met—or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The statesmen who construct, and the warriors who achieve, are only influenced by the instinct of power, and animated by the love of country. Those are the feelings and those the methods which form empires.

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal …

To ourselves, in strict language, we can owe no duties, obligation requiring also two parties. Self-love, therefore, is no part of morality. Indeed, it is exactly its counterpart.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his …