Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 CE-1862 CE), Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher; best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience",an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.