We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Let the foundation of thy affection be virtue, then make the building as rich as glorious as thou canst; if the foundation be beauty or wealth, and the building virtue, the foundation is too weak for the building, and it will fall: happy is he, the palace of whose affection is founded upon virtue, walled with riches glazed with beauty, and roofed with honor.
But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy.
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.