Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. - Willa Cather

Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family — but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.