Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry David Thoreau (18171862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 353, Houghton Mifflin (1906).