I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.