A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.