"The solitary knows the essence of the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.”

“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.”

“Every time you wink the stars move.”

“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”

“Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”

“Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.”