“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
