To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.Henry David Thoreau
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.Henry David Thoreau