To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A true and genuine impudence is ever the effect of ignorance without the least sense of it.

The person whom you favoured with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

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.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.