The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart. Anthony the Great
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. Stendhal
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. William Wordsworth
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. Aphra Behn
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon