I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.