I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.