"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."