Loneliness

"A solitary man cannot be a man-hater if for no other reason than that where there are no bones, there are no bones to chew. The cause of man-avoidance is either sickness, or spiritual work which demands silence; or, simply, the overdevelopment above the masses, - the consequence of which is that human love becomes a frozen principle, because contact with men becomes boring to such a one. But if the man-avoider is a man of integrity, he is always a man of spirit."