The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Franz Kafka

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Calvin Coolidge

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf

All we ask is to be let alone.

Jefferson Davis

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Gertrude Stein

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

A pet's unwavering devotion is a reminder that we are never alone.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

A dog's love is a constant source of reassurance, reminding us that we are never alone.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Voltaire

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Edward Gibbon

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

David Ricardo

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thomas De Quincey

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Benjamin Disraeli

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Oscar Wilde

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt