“Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.” CharacterAgeIndependenceAlonenessObstinacyBachelorhood Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake
“He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone.” IsolationAlonenessSelf Exposure Book:The Great Mistake Source: The Great Mistake