Who said “The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”?

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”

“Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.”

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”

“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

“Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”

“Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”

“And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.”

“You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.”

“'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”