This cold and solitude are friends of mine.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.