“My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”

“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”

“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”

“And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.”

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”