Jane Porter: When solitude is sought out as a place for the mind to dream in, and not to arouse itself and form plans for future acti

When solitude is sought out as a place for the mind to dream in, and not to arou — Jane Porter

When solitude is sought out as a place for the mind to dream in, and not to arouse itself and form plans for future action, it is nothing better than a tomb loaded with lying epitaphs.

Jane Porter

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As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone. — Anton Chekhov
Solitude is separate existence. — Alice Meynell
Nobody with me at sea but myself. — Oliver Goldsmith
This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! — Lord Byron
Worms seize leaves and other objects, not only to serve as food, but for pluggin — Charles Darwin
Dear is my friend—yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend show — Friedrich Schiller
On ne peut oublier le temps qu'en s'en servant. — Charles Baudelaire
Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. — Swami Vivekananda
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. — Henri Matisse in Christian Science Monitor
君子欲訥於言而敏於行。 — Confucius
I would live to study, and not study to live. — Francis Bacon