The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, – all duties even.
Affection Quotes
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
A woman’s life is a history of the affections.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
Most people would rather get than give affection.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
