Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.

—Sophie Kinsella in Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

—Jamie Ford in The World As We Know It

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

—Randy K. Milholland

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

—Friedrich Nietzsche