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Love and light cannot be hid.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

The French add smoke to these irrepressible things.ssss1 La gale is sometimes enumerated with them; and the Danes say, "Poverty and love are hard to hide."ssss1

Love and lordship like not fellowship.

Kindness comes awill.

That is, love cannot be forced. The Germans couple it in that respect with singing.ssss1 "Who would be loved must love,"ssss1 say the Italians; and "Love is the very price at which love is to be bought."ssss1

Our English proverbs on love are for the most part sarcastic or jocular, and few of them can be compared, for grace and elevation of feeling, with those of Italy. We have no parallels in our language for the following:—"Love knows no measure"ssss1—there are no bounds to its trustfulness and devotion;—"Love warms more than a thousand fires;"ssss1—"He who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides;"ssss1—"Love rules without law;"ssss1—"Love rules his kingdom without a sword;"ssss1—"Love knows not labour;"ssss1—"Love is master of all arts."ssss1 The French have one proverb on the sovereign might of love,ssss1 which they borrowed from the sublime phrase in the Song of Solomon, "Love is stronger than death;" and another expressed in the language of their chivalric forefathers, "Love subdues all but the ruffian's heart."ssss1