"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"It's such a happiness when good people get together."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."