"You have never been in love." "No," she answered, "I have never been in love like that, but all the happiness I have had in my life has come to me from loving.

I believe that love is the secret of the world: it is like the philosopher's stone they used to look for, and almost as hard to find, but if you find it it turns everything to gold.

Perhaps," she went on with a little laugh, "when the angels departed from the earth they left us love behind, that by it and through it we may climb up to them again.

It is the one thing that lifts us above the brutes.

Without love man is a brute, and nothing but a brute; with love he draws near to God.