'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
Much is expected from those to whom much is given.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.