What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.