A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying

What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. 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 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.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.