She is unable to sustain relationships and prizes her freedom above the collective good of the class. We encourage self-sufficiency,…
[King Edward] was careful not to tear England violently from the splendid isolation in which she had wrapped herself. Poincaré,…
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island. [Non seulement l'Angleterre, mais chaque Anglais est une ile.] Novalis, Fragments…
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because…
We have stood alone in that which is called isolation—our splendid isolation, as one of our Colonial friends was good…
Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their…