"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the
real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
~ Goethe.
"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
~ Sir James M. Barrie.
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
~ Leo Tolstoy.
"Love: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
~ Robert Frost.