Solitude begets whimsies.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

Solitude begets whimsies.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

Life is too short for a long story.

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

In short I will part with anything for you but you.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

While conscience is our friend all is at peacehowever once it is offendedfarewell to a tranquil mind.

Only a mother knows a mothers fondness.

Only a mother knows a mother's fondness.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

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.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.