“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.”
Stendhal
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
James Russell Lowell
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
