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I find itwholesome（健全的，有益健康的）to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soonwearisome（疲倦的，厌倦的）anddissipating（消散）. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable assolitude（孤独，隐居）. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The reallydiligent（勤勉的，用功的）student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as adervish（托钵僧）in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day,hoeing（锄地，挖掘）or chopping, and not feel lonesome, because he is employed; but when he comes home at night he cannot sit down in a room alone, at the mercy of his thoughts, but must be where he can see the folks and recreate, and, as he thinks,remunerate（酬劳，赔偿）himself for his day's solitude; and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and the blues; but he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is still at work in his field, and chopping in his woods, as the farmer in his, and in turn seeks the same recreation and society that the latter does, though it may be a more condensed form of it. | 
