Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and read more

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Among them, but not of them.

Among them, but not of them.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and
the flowers faded.

So vain is the belief
That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.

So vain is the belief
That the sequestered path has fewest flowers.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.