Solitary

Famous quotes containing the word solitary:

“Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family—but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)

“The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)