If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.
The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.
Literature is the expression of society.
After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.