Sociability is good, but there may be too much of it. The instinct of gregariousness oftentimes leads us away from the solitude that is needed. Solitude is woven into every character truly strong. Not solitude with one's self alone. That may be in part profitable; but solely, it is a source of weakness. All that it may yield us is no better, stronger, higher, than ourselves.
Let the solitary moments be with God; for "God to man doth talk in solitude." Converse with Him connects us with the great fountain of life and power, a source-supply inexhaustible, and makes the soul a sprig of crystal sweetness, "whose waters fail not."
From the intro of Alone with God, by Matilda Erickson Andross
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