Individualism

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now

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.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities

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

England and America are two countries separated by the same language

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together

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

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

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.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married

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

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

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.