I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. – Henry David Thoreau

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. – Robert Louis Stevenson

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. – Frank Moore Colby

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson