y one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some one
else.--_Alphonse Karr._

A woman whom we truly love is a religion.--_Emile de Girardin._

Childhood is only a wearisome prologue: the first act of the human
comedy opens only at the moment when love makes a breach in our
hearts.--_Arsene Houssaye._

The religion of humanity is love.--_Mazzini._

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the
night, but he who is intoxicated by the cup-bearer will not recover his
senses until the day of judgment.--_Saadi._

Love reasons without reason.--_Shakespeare._

It seems to me that the coming of love is like the coming of spring--the
date is not to be reckoned by the calendar. It may be slow and gradual;
it may be quick and sudden. But in the morning, when we wake and
recognize a change in the world without, verdure on the trees, blossoms
on the sward, warmth in the sunshine, music in the air, we say spring
has come.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Love and a cough cannot be hid.--_George Herbert._

Love is the most dunder-headed of all the passions; it never will listen
to reason. The very rudiments of logic are unknown to it. "Love has no
wherefore," says one of the Latin poets.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and
not, as it too often is, the end.--_Alphonse Karr._

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to
be loved is an insupportable death.--_Voltaire._

The heart of a woman is never so full of affection that there does not
remain a little corner for flattery and love.--_Mauvaux._

Love is always blind and tears his hands whenever he tries to gather
roses.--_Arsene Houssaye._

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by
imagination.--_Voltaire._

Oh! I was mad to intoxicate myself with the wine of love, and to extend
my hand to the crown of poets. Pleasure! Poetry! you are perfidious
friends. Pain follows you closely.--_Arsene Houssaye._

If love gives wit to fools, it undoubtedly takes it from
wits.--_Alphonse Karr._

In love, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never
comes until after the disorder is cured.--_Mme. de la Tour._

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.--_Alphonse Karr._

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