“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The best thinking has been done in solitude.” Thomas A. Edison “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” Voltaire “Solitary trees, if they grow at all,

Quotes About Idleness Being Positive  “Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” Floyd Dell “Idleness is the parent of psychology.” Friedrich Nietzsche “Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.” Franz Kafka “What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.” Nassim Taleb “The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.” Oscar Wilde “Idleness is