“To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.”

“Obscuritie in affection of words, & indigested concets, is pedanticall and childish…”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”

“It is deeds not words which must purchase my affection and esteem.”

“Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…”

“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.

“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”

“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”