Affections Quotes

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.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

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

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

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.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.