“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 ”
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“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 ”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known ”
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels”
“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more”
“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ”
“He travels the fastest who travels alone”
“Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be”
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost”
“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ”
“There is just one life for each of us: our own ”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies ”
“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”
“Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.”
“Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family 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”