“Is there anything in this world more beautiful than true love? What is greater and more powerful than the power of love? Even death is conquered by it.”

“More than life, more than honor, I love thee."

More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee. More than any power in faerie, I love thee.”

“Love is God’s essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.”

“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.”

“Tobias loved her more than he’d loved anything—his family, his duty, even himself. There, perhaps, the Herondale blood ran true.”

“But words are more powerful than anything.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

“On reflection, it is not even clear if military power is a transitive relationship. Until we have defined more explicitly how we are going to measure military power, it is not clear that if A is more powerful than B, and B more powerful than C, that A is more powerful than C.”

“Love for him, for the human body, was extremely humanitarian an interest and had more educational power than the whole teaching skills of the world!”