Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. [ Milton ]
Is mutual service the bond of friendship? [ William Ellery Channing ]
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. [ Milton ]
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]
Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look,
When hearts are of each other sure;
Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. [ Cowper ]
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Marriage is a treaty in which the conditions should be mutual. [ Balzac ]
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]
Money and man a mutual falsehood show. Men make false money, - money makes men so. [ Aleyn ]
There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love. [ E. Lynn Linto ]
The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. [ Lord Lansdowne ]
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. [ James A. Garfield ]
Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness. [ South ]
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. [ Dryden ]
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire. [ Colton ]
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. [ Colton ]
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. [ Hazlitt ]
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. [ Seneca ]
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity, than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect. [ Jane Porter ]
As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too. [ C. A. Bartol ]
The centuries are all lineal children of one another; and often, in the portrait of early grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic feature of the newest grandson will disclose itself, to mutual elucidation. [ Carlyle ]
Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself. [ W. Warburton ]
We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]
Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]