
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.
Our old home: a series of English sketches - Página 236 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-kYgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Houghton, Mifflin, 1868 - 380 páginas