Self publishing.............................

     Human character evermore publishes itself.  The most fugitive deed and word, the mere air of doing a thing, the intimated purpose, expresses character.   If you act, you show character;  if you sit still, if you sleep, you show it.  You think, because you have spoken nothing when others spoke, and have given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on secret societies, on the college, on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.  Far otherwise;  your silence answers very loud.  You have no oracle to utter, and you fellow-men have learned that you cannot help them; for oracles speak.  Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his 1841 essay Spiritual Laws