Ralph Waldo Emerson Individualism Quotations

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.