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.
在这个世界上，随大流是件容易的事；只按自己的想法离世隐居也很容易；但是了不起的人能够身处人群却保持着独立的思想。

——Emerson, 'Self-Reliance'
——爱默生，《论自助》