The tenderest friendship, the holiest love, cannot enter into the solitariness in which each one of us lives apart.
"Still in each heart of hearts a hidden deep Lies, never fathomed by its dearest, best." This aloneness of life sometimes becomes very real in consciousness.
All great souls experience it as they rise out of and above the common mass of men in their thoughts and hopes and aspirations, as the mountains rise from the level of the vale and little hills.

All great leaders of men ofttimes must stand alone, as they move in advance of the ranks of their followers.

The battles of truth and of progress have usually been fought by lonely souls.

Elijah, for example, in a season of disheartenment and despondency, gave it as part of the exceptional burden of his life that he was the only one in the field for God.

It is so in all great epochs; God calls one man to stand for him.