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

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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