Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
Those who love are but one step from heaven.
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.