A wise man lives but so long as his life is worth more than his death.

The longer life is not always the better."] [Footnote 146: Mr.J.S.Mill, in his book 'On Liberty,' describes "the masses," as "collective mediocrity." "The initiation of all wise or noble things," he says, "comes, and must come, from individuals--generally at first from some one individual.

The honour and glory of the average man is that he is capable of following that imitation; that he can respond internally to wise and noble things, and be led to them with his eyes open....

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.