The single man has a fine chance to be "a scholar and a ripe good one."
Having been denied the joys of a household all dependent on him, he may
surround himself with books, he may pursue investigations, he may gather
the ideas of the wits and the thinkers, and he may thus broaden his
brains until he is the honored associate of the best minds in his
region. This form of happiness is, to those who are within reach of it,
one of the most satisfying within the gift of God. There is no reaction,
there is no sorrow.