Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Colossians 3:2.

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Of Mrs Todgers. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.8.

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^8  Mr Toots. Dombey and Son, ch.48.

Rearrange a 'Wife's'affection! When they dislocate my Brain! Amputate my freckled Bosom! Make me bearded like a man!

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
Complete Poems, no.1737 (first published1891).

Oh, is there not one maiden here Whose homely face and bad complexion Have caused all hopes to disappear Of ever winning man's affection?

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Frederic's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of flattery, and to suppose that the encomiast always knows and feels the falsehood of his assertions, issurely to discover great ignorance of human nature and human life. In determinations depending not on rules, but on experience and comparison, judgement is always to some degree subject to affection.Very near to admiration is the wish to admire.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
^81 Lives of the English Poets,'Halifax'.

No rules,however wise, area substituteforaffectionand tact.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  In Praise of Idleness,'Education and Discipline'.

   or we may hold them in respect and affection as fellow creepers on a commodious planet saying,'Yes you too you too are people'.

-Sandburg, Carl
  On'the red men'.The People,Yes.

Why is itthat girls so constantlydothis, so frequentlyask men who have loved them to be present at their marriages with other men? There is no triumph in it. It is done in sheer kindness and affection. They intend to offer something whichshall softenand not aggravatethe sorrow that they have caused† I fully appreciate the intention, but in honest truth,I doubt the eligibility of the proffered entertainment.

-Trollope, Anthony
  John Eames.The Small House at Allington, ch.9.

   Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy. She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

-Wollstonecraft, Mary also known as Mrs Godwin
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.2.