“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) Self-reliance, of the type alluded to by Ralph … Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Psychology of Self-Reliance