Real men don't conform to the beliefs of others, even when society has concluded on what is good and true, but maintain the integrity of their own mind.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson