Charles Mackay Quote

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (ed. 1852)