The virtues like the Muses are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal private solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common of thinking by the body of the people so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books we are not alone.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family friends and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I think I meant that given the circumstances of my childhood I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person because it was more romantic. You know I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.