Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

His time's forever, everywhere his place.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.