Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in its larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

More from Elbert Hubbard

• Life is just one damned thing after another.
• Never Explain--your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway.
• Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.
• Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
• And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense...and it's you.
• Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.