Love is the river of life in this world by Henry Ward Beecher

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who
stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain.

Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream;
not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened
and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom;

not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths—not until then can you know what love is.
Henry Ward Beecher