How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Man is the creature of circumstances.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
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.