The source for the epigram "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," FTP, name this essay that ends "nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Beginning with a passage from Beaumont and Fletcher's The Honest Man's Fortune, its author extols the virtue of Scanderbeg and Gustavus, stating that when private men act with original views, the luster of virtue is transferred from kings to gentlemen. Its opening paragraph sums up the author's belief that genius is to believe that one's own thoughts contain the truth of all humanity.  The source for the epigram "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," FTP, name this essay that ends "nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Beginning with a passage from Beaumont and Fletcher's The Honest Man's Fortune, its author extols the virtue of Scanderbeg and Gustavus, stating that when private men act with original views, the luster of virtue is transferred from kings to gentlemen.
Self-Reliance