“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”– James Russell Lowell Related Quotes “The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.”– Daisaku Ikeda “The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.”– E. M. Forster “I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.”– Erma Bombeck