Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation
Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
Current Citation
Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.