Yea, if a man possess all things he cannot be content, — the greater his possessions the less will be his contentment, for the heart cannot be satisfied with possessions, but rather in detachment from all things and in poverty of spirit.

Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love.

Without love, our lives are empty.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul.

Where love is absent there can be no feast.

An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring
Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.