The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis,vanish, - all duties even.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roo
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Affection, like melancholy, magnifiestrifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscop
- Hunt, Leigh

A woman's life is a history of the affections.
- Irving, Washington

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
- Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I never met a man I didn't like.
- Rogers, Will

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- Shaw, George Bernard

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- Smith, Logan P.