“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.”
“A multitude of people and yet a solitude.”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”