Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Abraham Cowley, ( 1618-1667), English poet, essayist; His works include Poetical Blossoms, 1633, Love's Riddle, 1638 and The Guardian (aka: The Cutter Of Coleman Street).