Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.