It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live a… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

he that thinks most, will say least.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.