"Good" behavior, etc.
- "The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"
"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof."
"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
"...instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
- - Henry David Thoreau, Walden