“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.”

“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.”

“France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."”

“She was stronger alone…”

“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”

“It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”