“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson via Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem interpreted by Edward Norton
Also of interest, in an essay of RWE’s called “Self Reliance” we are introduced to
[t]he power which resides in him [that] is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.