“Happiness flourishes where there is happiness, and love withers quickly in an atmosphere of constraint and gloom.”— André Maurois, Un Art de Vivre (1939), The Art of LovingShare
“There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.”— André MauroisShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“But love for an object eternal and infinite feeds the mind with joy alone, and a joy which is free from all sorrow.”— Baruch SpinozaShare
“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”— Khalil GibranShare
“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.”— Francis BaconShare
