Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
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 roots.
My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.