"If I could weave peace into the fabric of the world, I would stitch flowers onto its hem, and shake it over the earth, and say, There, now. Rest."
--Suzanne Stutman

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone.
--Thomas De Quincey, writer (1785-1859)