No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.