I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

He who blushes is already guilty.

Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.