The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

We are all failures - at least, the best of us are.

The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high

If you have it, Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.