It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.
Henry David ThoreauI never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.
Henry David ThoreauI will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
Henry David ThoreauThe authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
Henry David Thoreau