I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.