"Isolation must precede true society...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”

“Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.”

“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

“How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?”

“Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.”

“It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.”

“People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.”