“Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.” LoveMayCausesLove IsLove YouObjectsPleaseConsequenceFruitSakeMeritSufficientUsefulnessRecompense Book:Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon Source: Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon
“The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.” LoveHandsLosesPleasureHalfDoubtDangerWillingFlowerLoversDifficultyMeritHuntersPerfume Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels