Life: January 7, 1820 - October 13, 1890
Birthday: January 7
Death: October 13
It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
source: AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93
topic: Prayer, Men, Long, Alone With God