For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best. The theater of all my actions is fallen, said an antique personage when his chief friend was dead, and they are fortunate who get a theater where the audience demands their best.

have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.

If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.