Great Throughts Treasury

"A man does not entreat for love. It is the irresistible impulse towards each other of two souls, a union in which there is neither conscious giving nor receiving."

"Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts."

"True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon."

"Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion."

"Character makes its own destiny."

"Work, ah! that talisman to guard one against one's self."