Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They
teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored
inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays
Related:
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid
of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men
and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that
most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an
ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean
and beg day and night continually....
