It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. --Niccolo Machiavelli
Taste and Art
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art".” --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Trust, Wrong
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. --William Shakespeare
Open Rebuke and Hidden Love
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.” —Proverbs 27:5-6
Loved and Lost
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
Once Enjoyed
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” —Helen Keller
Rather Than
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” —Henry David Thoreau
Command Love
“We cannot command our love, but we can our actions.” —Arthur Conan Doyle
To Be Trusted
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” —George MacDonald