How can man love but what he yearns to help? [ Browning ]

The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. [ Petron ]

Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. [ Ward Beecher ]

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. [ Chapin ]