"Solitude is impractical and yet society is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.”

“A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.”

“We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.”

“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”

“I owe my solitude to other people.”

“He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.”

“A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.”

“Arms and laws do not flourish together.”

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”