I have three phobias which could I mute them would make my life as slick as a sonnet but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed I hate to get up and I hate to be alone.

And then when all around grows dark when we feel utterly alone when all men right and left pass us by and know us not a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen only wait. Do not even wait be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking it can do no other in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Never trust a man who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Rigid the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body let alone the mind or both in combination when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone in a single cottage on the top of a mountain a mile from any habitation? He replied that Providence was his next-door neighbor.