Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.