“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”

“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.”

“We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.”

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

“Just what instrumentalities of either a state or the federal government are exempt from taxation by the other cannot be stated in terms of universal application.”

“Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.”

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

“Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.”