William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
Context: It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
“In love, the first healed is the best healed.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
En amour, celui qui est guéri le premier est toujours le mieux guéri.
Maxim 417.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“And love for love is reckoned best.”
Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) American judge
IV, p. 26.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Context: p>The sunlight of a sunlit land,
A land of fruit, of flowers, and
A land of love and calm delight;
A land where night is not like night,
And noon is but a name for rest,
And love for love is reckoned best. Where conversations of the eyes
Are all enough; where beauty thrills
The heart like hues of harvest-home;
Where rage lies down, where passion dies,
Where peace hath her abiding place....</p
“It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”
Arthur C. Clarke book The Road to the Sea
The Road to the Sea, p. 284
2000s and posthumous publications, The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)
“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”
Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist.
