"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.”

“Every time you wink the stars move.”

“My life is not an apology, but a life.”

“Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.”

“I felt very lonely when they were all there.”

“If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.”

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.”