By all means use some time to be alone.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.