• No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

    William Gilmore Simms: No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.89