“None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.” KnowsLoveLooksHeartEyeFacesRhetoricGlancesSighResortsSweetestEloquenceUnspokenMuteOratoryPantomimeFull Hearts Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.” LoveJoySufferingMemoriesWatchesComfortBlessingBelovedOver ItHardshipFountainExquisiteSweetestUniting Book:Daniel Deronda Source: Daniel Deronda
“The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.” LoveSometimesRomanceSexBoysFineFriendsComfortDegreesMereBoundsGenerousSentimentsHeartedSweetest Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities