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| 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. | | Seasons | |
| I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate | | Uncategorized | |
| I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Death and dying; Life | |
| I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. | | Heroism | |
| I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion | | Uncategorized | |
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| 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. | | Music; Relationships | |
| 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 | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. | | Uncategorized | |
| If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. | | Uncategorized | |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | | Uncategorized | |
