Individualism

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road

There's no accounting for taste

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love

And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department

Don't forget to love yourself.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage, he won't encounter many rivals.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimable

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

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected