Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"If I knew that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

"Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights."