In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.--_Marguerite
de Valois._
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life,
and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not
to be had where and how she wills: to know that high initiation, she
must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and
watch through darkness.--_George Eliot._
To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, to
be the idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is
stealing fire from heaven and deserves death.--_Madame de Girardin._
But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set a
candle in the sun.--_Burton._
There are as many kinds of love as there are races. A great tall German,
learned, virtuous, phlegmatic, said one day: "Souls are sisters, fallen
from heaven, who all at once recognize and run to meet each other." A
little dry Frenchman, hot-blooded, witty, lively, replied to him: "You
are right; you can always find shoes to fit."--_Taine._