It is by Love that the whole world is maintained, [by Love all things move,] by Love each creature perpetuates itself separately, and by Love the whole preserves its parts [and so forth].

Ghabat al-haqq (c. 1865). In: Hawi, Khalil S. (1982). Kahlil Gibran: his Background, Character, and Works (2nd ed.), pp. 59–60.