A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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