But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Riches are for spending.

Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absu…

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

To force solitude on a man who has just come to understand that he is not alone, is that not the definitive crime against man?

No one can endure his own solitude.