“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

“ The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag’d to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another’s eye. ”

“ My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. ”

“ These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey, Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” ”

“ When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. ”

“ Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. ”

“ You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. ”

“ To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. ”

“ The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ”

“ Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable. ”

“ The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. ”

“ To love another person is to see the face of God. ”