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

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)

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity
In least speak most.
–A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act V, Scene i

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act V, Scene v

O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou.
–Twelfth Night,
Act I, Scene i