We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.