Hunter

“He made her vows she should be the only woman he would possess while he lived; that no age or wrinkles should incline him to change; for her soul would be always fine, and always young; and he should have an eternal idea in his mind of the charms she now bore; and should look into his heart for that idea, when he could find it no longer in her face.”
― aphra behn

“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.”
― William Langland

“Amor vincit omnia”
― Geoffrey Chaucer