As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.
Henry David ThoreauBe not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
Henry David ThoreauWe are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
Henry David ThoreauWhat do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.
Henry David Thoreau