An individualist and trailblazer, Thoreau sent in motion a new rhythm for the world to dance to. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. The sun is but a morning star .
Experience is in the fingers and head.
The heart is inexperienced. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge. Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.