Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.