“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13). "It is the essence of love to be willing to suffer- to rejoice in our suffering for others. Hence it is energy, courage, hardihood. It is not tame and faint and weak." (William Elllery Channing). "Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin." (Henry Ward Beecher). "Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it." (William Makepeace Thackeray). "To love in order to be loved in return, is man; but to love for the pure sake of loving, is almost the characteristic of an angel." (Lamartine.)