be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth!" says
Shakspeare. "I do much wonder," says the King of Thought, again, "that
one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his
favor to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in
others, became the argument of his own scorn, by falling in love."
"LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP EXCLUDE EACH OTHER,"
says DuCoeur. "Love begins by love, and the strongest friendship could
only give birth to a feeble love." "Love, which is only an episode in
the life of man," says Madame DeStael, "is the entire history of woman's
life." "Love is a spaniel," says Colton, "that prefers even punishment
from one hand to caresses from another." "A man loved by a beautiful and
virtuous woman, carries a talisman that renders him invulnerable," says
Madame Dudevant; "everyone feels that such a one's life has a higher
value than that of others." "There are no little events with love,"
says Balzac; "it places in the same scales the fall of an empire and the
dropping of a woman's glove." "There's nothing half so sweet in life as
love's young dream," says Moore. "Where there is love in the heart,"
says Beecher, "there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black
cloud with gorgeous hues." "The greatest happiness of life," says Victor
Hugo, "is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves--say,