However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and cont….

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom..

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest..

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had….

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life..

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude..

In solitude, when we are least alone..

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity..

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I ….

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, ben….

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself..

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we ….

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws..

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them..

I am happiest when I am alone..