Affection Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer:…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist…

— Matthew Arnold

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty.…

— John Piper

“How can a heart given up to human affections be closely united to God? It seems to me that it is impossible. I have…

— Thérèse de Lisieux

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily…

— James Fenimore Cooper

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or…

— Amelia Barr

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:…

— Joseph Butler

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

— Laurence Sterne

“Necessity is very often the mother of romance.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

— Washington Irving