There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction
that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself
for better for worse as his portion . . .
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.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . .
Ralph Waldo Emerson
