I am only one,
But still I am one,
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
But society has fairly got the better of individuality,
and the danger which threatens human nature is not
the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses
and preferences
Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however
Measured or far away.
They spring from individuals.
They spring from individuals.
The divine spark leaps from the finger of
GOD to the finger of Adam, whether it
take ultimate shape in a law of physics
or a ; law of the land, a poem or a policy,
a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Individuality is everywhere to be spared and
respected as the root of everything good.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by
whatever name it may be called.