'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.

God created man and finding him not sufficiently alone gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

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.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.