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.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance, a solid gold hit parade:
世界上很容易生活在世界舆论之后，孤独的生活很容易，但伟大的人却在人群中保持着完美的甜美——孤独的独立性。（谷歌翻译仅供参考）