The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
Henry David ThoreauIf the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Henry David ThoreauTo enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
Henry David Thoreau