“As if there were safety in stupidity alone.”

“God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

“In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. ”

“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”

“To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.”