My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. – From the movie Ed TV

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871