I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. Being in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I have never found a companion that was as friendly as solitude. We are for the most part lonelier when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our homes. A man thinking or working is always alone. Solitude is net measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellow men. The really diligent student in one of the crowded rooms of a college is as a hermit in the desert The farmer can work alone iii the field or the woods all day, weeding or chopping, and no[feel lonesome, because he is employed~ But when he comes home at night, he cannot be alone. He must be where he can see "the folks", and he thinks, repay himself for his day’ s solitude. So he wonders bow the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without boredom and the "blues". But he does not realize that the student, although in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods.