We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a cat is positively soothing to a student.