Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
--COLOSSIANS 3:2.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the
life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they
are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.--HAWTHORNE.

     A solitary blessing few can find,
     Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
     And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
     The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
     Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
     But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant
spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is
the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and
repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.