Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. – Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 #infj

…her mind astir with pictures and emotions. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 #infj

When he is in the room with other persons, speech stops, as if there were a corpse in the apartment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very