As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
Source: Journals, 1906, entry in 1850.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.