Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: He remained a bachelor , but not a stranger to love , which he counted the sixth sense : his inscription of the Physiognomie to his beautiful cousin Juliette RÃ camier reads `` Madam , receive kindly and read indulgently the work of an old man .
Simplified: He remained a bachelor , but he counted love as the sixth sense : his inscription of the Physiognomie . to his beautiful cousin Juliette RÃ camier reads `` Madam , receive kindly and read indulgently the work of an old man .