“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not de...”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in othe...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.”

“And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”

“To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.”

“To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar”

“And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow...”

“A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.”