“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”– Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”– Plato “We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.”– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach “Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”– George Bernard Shaw