Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.