AFFECTION

O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections and not power
To govern them?
-Ludovick Barry

Most wretched man
That to affections does the bridle lend.
-Spenser

Affections, called so, because they form us into a certain frame of mind towards other persons, and operate therefore, as attractions, and not like, the passions as repulsions.
-J. Martineau

All his affections are seen on his own country.
-Macaulay

A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection.
-Sir Walter Scott

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never wasted; if it enrich not the heart of another, waters, returning to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.
-H. W. Longfellow