“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”

“It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.”

“Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.”

“My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.”

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”

“On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man”

“One friend is always sacrificed to the other in friendship.”