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.Henry David Thoreau
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.Henry David Thoreau
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.Fran Lebowitz