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| I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country. | | Uncategorized | |
| I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country. | | Uncategorized | |
| I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster | | Uncategorized | |
| I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? | | Uncategorized | |
| I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. | | Uncategorized | |
| I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude. | | Uncategorized | |
| I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. | | Uncategorized | |
| I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society | | Cute friendship | |
| I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway | | Doing Your Best | |
| I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief | | Pets | |
| I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind’s eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men’s wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one’s wood-lot to such another’s. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly. | | Wilderness | |
| I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind’s eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men’s wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one’s wood-lot to such another’s. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly. | | Wilderness | |
| I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. | | Advice; World | |
| I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. | | Uncategorized | |
| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. | | Uncategorized | |
| I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? | | Uncategorized | |
