You know it's impossible for people to make themselves love other people if they don't...

Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"

...life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"

The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.

Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women"

...as light comes from the sun, so does happiness come from love.

Henryk Sienkiewicz, "Quo Vadis"

We often go from love to ambition, but we never return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims"

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain, "Some Men are More Perfect Than Others"

It is impossible to love a second time those whom we have really ceased to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims"