When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
Learn from me if not by my precepts then by my example how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.