Nature and books belong to all who see them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend’s parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.