For Love is like a child,
That longs for everything that he can come by. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc.1 ]

He that shews his purse longs to be rid of it. [ Proverb ]

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity. [ Hutton ]

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. [ J. G. Holland ]

The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]