I find it wholesome 2 be alone the greater part of the time... 2 be in company even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating... I love 2 be alone. I never found the companion da was so companionable as solitude. We r 4 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.. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space da intervene between a man and his fellows.. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot si down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts.. He must be where he can c the folks and recreate.. As he think, remunerate himself 4 his day's solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all 9 and most of the day without ennui and the blues.. However he does not realize da the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society da the latter does, though it may be a more condensed from of it. Society is commonly 2 cheap.. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time 2 acquire any new value 4 each other.. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of da old musty cheese da we r.. We have had 2 agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, 2 make this frequent meeting tolerable and da we need not come to open war. We meet at the post-office and at the sociable about the fireside every night; we live thick and r in each other's way, and stumble over one another and I think da we thus lose some respect 4 one another. Certainly less frequency would suffice 4 all important and hearty communications.. Consider the girls in a factory - never alone, hardly in their dreams. It would be better if there were but one inhabitant 2 a square mile, as where I live... The value of a man is not in his skin, da we should touch him. I suggest a few comparisons, da some one may convey and idea of my situation. I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond da laughs so loud, or than Walden pond itself.. What company has da lonely lake? Any yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angles in it, in the azure tint of its waters.. The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear 2 be two, but one is a mock sun. God is alone, but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Millbrook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house..