"Love" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my love—I was just going, when I met a Telegraph-boy with this, for you, I hope there's nothing wrong with Uncle GABRIEL, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 • Various
... this letter, because they say here that you ain't real. But I know better, and Skeet does, and so I've made up my mind to try this letter. If you're real, write me and if you want us to come, say so, and we'll be there, if there's a way. Next to Skeet, I love you and Huck more than anybody in the world, barrin' near relatives, for I think you're brave and plucky, and square, as anybody would who reads your book. I want to meet ...
— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters
... and were charmed by his unfailing courtesy and winning manners. He found time to learn their language. The study of their character, their myths, customs, and art was not only to him a labour of love, but bore practical fruit in the knowledge it gave him of the race. So good were the volumes in which he put together and published the fruits of his Maori studies, that for nearly half a century students of Maori ...
— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves
... he came late and told Charlotte that his mother had suddenly taken her passage for England, and they were sailing the next morning. He said, as if it logically followed, that he had been in love with her from that earliest time when she would not give him the least of her possessions, and now he asked her if she would not promise him the greatest. She did not like what she felt "rehearsed" in his proposal; ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... in the personality of God is all-essential for the satisfaction of our religious cravings, as a presupposition of trust, love, prayer, obedience, and such relationships; as bringing out the transcendence in contrast with the all-pervading immanence of the deity; as checking the pantheistic perversion of this latter truth by which, in turn, its own deistic perversion ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
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