Individualism

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

He travels the fastest who travels alone

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do

The great hope of society is in individual character

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid