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?

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

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

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.

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

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.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.