I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. |
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business |
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. |
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. |
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it |
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate |
I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary |
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. |
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. |
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. |
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion |
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? |
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. |
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.Walden |