Thoughts on Affection - Happy Valentine's Day, All

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- Clive Staples Lewis, The Four Loves

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.
- David Hume, 1711 - 1776

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 - 43 BC