...mother says that all little children belong to the Kingdom of Heaven." — The Youth's Evangelist. "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what...people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because...

...Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot spend the day in explanation. What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in a&ual and in intellectual life, may serve as the whole distinction between greatness and meanness....

...is all that concerns me, and not what the people think. This rule, equally as arduous in actual as in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own...

...may misunderstand him, he cares not, — so much the worse for the reader. He lived by his own text: "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think." "We cannot spend the day in explanation." It is this characteristic of Emerson that has gained for...

...but honest and honorable. Remember what that greatest of American ethical thinkers, Emerson, says : ' What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. ... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after...

...brother, when my genius calls me"; "Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why 1 exclude company"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."49 Emerson's own statements on nature's ontology, as his readers know, provide a counterbalance...