The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.