...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
Being is the great explainer.
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.