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- Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — Plato
- Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. — Henry David Thoreau
- To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. — Honore de Balzac