“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“The chief business of my life has always been to indulge my senses; I never knew anything of greater importance. I felt myself born for the fair sex, I have ever loved it dearly, and I have been loved by it as often and as much as I could.”

“And we could have been sweethearts, forever and ever,
Could have loved a whole lot more, been a little more true.”

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

“I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”

“I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”

“A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.”

“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”

“Where had thy life been at this hour,
Had not my Love been more than my Power? —
Away, if thou fearest, — love never must,
Never can live with one shade of distrust.”