Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.


Sonnet, Highland Solitude; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 729.


Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.