Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), Italian philosopher, theologian. trans. by Thomas Gilby, St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts, Oxford University Press, p. 325 (1951). Summa Theologiae, I, q. 20, art. 1, ad 3 (c. 1077-1078).