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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.

In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

If I associate not with these people,-- with mankind,-- with whom shall I associate?

Presently, after this was at an end, my mother died, and I was left at liberty to mourn her loss awhile.

If sorrow in its reaction makes us think of our friends, let my name come among the list of yours to you, and with it let the thought come that I am not the coldest and least sincere.

The unity of God preserves a unity in men--that is, a perpetual sympathy between man and man--which sympathy we must be subject to, if not in our joys, yet in our griefs.

you would wonder at seeing how possible it is to live as secludedly in the midst of a multitude as in the centre of solitude

There is only one event in my life which never loses its bitterness; which comes back on me like a retreating wave, going and coming again, which was and is my grief--I never had but one brother who loved and comprehended me.

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Whats'ever 'appens to you--whats'ever--you'd be a princess all the same--an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.

He did not know how long he sat there or what was happening to him, but at last he moved as if he were awakening and he got up slowly and stood on the moss carpet, drawing a long, deep, soft breath and wondering at himself. Something seemed to have been unbound and released in him, very quietly.

Brothers and sisters we were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers.

For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man--in society--it must be unavoidably impure.

A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.

The guaranties of civil liberty are but guaranties of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them.

When I saw them embracing each other, and heard their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised