"Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man of no conversation should smoke.”

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”

“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”

“Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.”

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“Be tough minded but tenderhearted.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.”

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”