“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

“What is this thing called love?
This funny thing called love?”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“When I, who conduct this inquiry, love something, then three things are found: I, what I love, and the love itself. … There are, therefore three things: the lover, the beloved and the love.”

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases…..”

“What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole!”

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

“What lovely things
Thy hand hath made.”