Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
“Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.” — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin” — Andrew Mayne Copy Share Image
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Marry Shelly Copy Share Image
The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“My dear child,' said the old gentleman, moved by the warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, 'you need not be afraid of my… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
