• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Main Points:
Emerson writes about how people get praised if they do many bad things and one good thing.


  • To be great is to be misunderstood
Thoughts: Having ideas that not everyone understands is better than having a bunch of people that do, why?, because it's an original idea meaning you've learned something on your own or something that gathered your attention. 



  • We pass for who we are
Thoughts:Maybe, You can pretend to act a certain way to fool others about who you really are but in the beginning till the end you'll always be the same as you could never pass for anyone but yourself.



  • A foolish consistencyy is the hobgoblin of little

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