It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

Richard Moss

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century

Mark Twain

Here’s to the happy man: All the world loves a lover.

Emerson

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

John Ruskin

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

W. Gladden