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.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.