It is emphatically not true about love in general, but only about love as modified in a certain special way.

The form of the affection, so to speak, is more important than the substance of it.

It will need but little consideration to show us that this is so.

Love is a thing that can take countless forms; and were not the form, for the modern world, the thing of the first importance, the praise bestowed upon all forms of it would be equal, or graduated only with reference to intensity.

But the very reverse of this is the case really.