Early Love
For lovers ever run before the clock.
–The Merchant of Venice,
Act II, Scene vi

O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
For thou art all, and all things else are thine.
–A Lover’s Complaint

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
–Romeo and Juliet,
Act I, Scene iv

To be wise and love
Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above.
–Troilus and Cressida,
Act III, Scene ii

Base men being in love have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them.
–Othello,
Act II, Scene iii

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds…
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
–Sonnet CXVI (116)