I have but few Words to spare. If I had but Six left three of them should be spent in saying I love you… ~Francis Hopkinson, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1790
I love you… and always I have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart. ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Louisa Norcross, 1860
I must write you one line of love, my dear little lunatic. I love you… I love you! ~Juliette Drouet, letter to Victor Hugo, 1833, translated by Theodora Davidson
I love you more than tongue can tell, or heart can hold in silence. ~R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, 1869
I love you… and am thereby made whole. ~Juliette Drouet, letter to Victor Hugo, 1837, translated by Theodora Davidson
I love you more and more every hour. ~Alexander Hamilton, letter to Elizabeth Schuyler, 1780
I love you — I have loved you dearly all these… years — I shall love you to my grave. ~Giovanni Ruffini, Doctor Antonio, 1855