Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.