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.


Essays: First Series (1841) - Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...