Remember that solitude and remote places, which many philosophers praise so highly, are just what they are. All things are the same nature everywhere. They appear the same to people who live in towns and deal with others as they do to those who retreat to mountaintops, deserted harbors, or any other empty places.
Let it always appear and be manifest unto thee that solitariness, and desert places, by many philosophers so much esteemed of and affected, are of themselves but thus and thus; and that all things are them to them that live in towns, and converse with others as they are the same nature everywhere to be seen and observed: to them that have retired themselves to the top of mountains, and to desert havens, or what other desert and inhabited places soever.