Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau