A man reserves his true and deepest love

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A pair of powerful spectacles

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A very small degree of hope

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac