I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.

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.