What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David ThoreauThe fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
Henry David ThoreauThe Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.
Henry David Thoreau