Self-Reliance Self-Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.” The first hint of the philosophy
Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Mark Quayle (advocate, b. 1841) Mark Hildesley Quayle, QC (1841 – 3 November 1928) was a Manx lawyer and the second son of Mark Hildesley Quayle a former Clerk of the Rolls on the Isle of Man and a Member of the House of Keys. Quayle was the second son of Mark Hildesley Quayle (1804–1879) and Mary Quayle (née Spedding). His father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather had all served as the Clerks of the Rolls on the Isle of Man, being part of a prominent Manx family who had held official positions in the Government of the Isle of