When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green. – Roald Dahl
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. – Maria Mitchell
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 April 2nd