I like to hear a sensible man talk

From A treasury of American anecdotes; sly, salty, shaggy stories of heroes and hellions, beguilers and buffoons, spellbinders and scapegoats, gagsters and gossips, from the grassroots and sidewalks of America by Benjamin Albert Botkin.  

Back some years ago there was a storekeeper in Stoddard, New Hampshire, who had a habit of talking to himself when alone and at other times when he thought he was alone. He was asked one day what motive he could have in talking to himself. Jacob replied that he had two very good and very substantial reasons: in the first place, he liked to talk to a sensible man; and in the second place, he liked to hear a sensible man talk.