“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

“No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.”

“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”

“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”