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“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. 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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson