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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.