Solitude is the place of purification.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. (From Paths in Utopia)

Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

El que no se hallare con animo de sufrir apele al retiro de si mismo, si es que aun a si mismo se ha de poder tolerar.