He only lived long enough to correct his final sheet for the press, and died on the very day that his work was published! Courageous men have often turned enforced solitude to account in executing works of great pith and moment.

It is in solitude that the passion for spiritual perfection best nurses itself.

The soul communes with itself in loneliness until its energy often becomes intense.

But whether a man profits by solitude or not will mainly depend upon his own temperament, training, and character.

While, in a large-natured man, solitude will make the pure heart purer, in the small-natured man it will only serve to make the hard heart still harder: for though solitude may be the nurse of great spirits, it is the torment of small ones.
It was in prison that Boetius wrote his 'Consolations of Philosophy,' and Grotius his 'Commentary on St.Matthew,' regarded as his masterwork in Biblical Criticism.