We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

—Madame de Stael

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

—Madame de Stael

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

—Madame de Stael

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

—Madame de Stael

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

—Madame de Stael

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

—Helen Rowland

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

—John Ruskin

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

—Joseph Joubert

Passionate love is not peculiar to the human species, for it penetrates through all existing things — celestial, elemental, vegetable, and mineral.

—Avicenna