擁有信仰的男人都很帥

    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 had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. 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 proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
    我到林中去，因為我希望謹慎地生活，只面對生活的基本事實，看看我是否學得到生活要教育我的東西，免得到了臨死的時候，才發現我根本就沒有生活過。我不希望度過非生活的生活，生活是那樣的可愛；我卻也不願意去修行過隱逸的生活，除非是萬不得已。我要生活得深深地把生命的精髓都吸到，要生活得穩穩噹噹，生活得斯巴達式的，以便根除一切非生活的東西，劃出一塊刈割的面積來，細細地刈割或修剪，把生活壓縮到一個角隅里去，把它縮小到最低的條件中，如果它被證明是卑微的，那麼就把那真正的卑微全部認識到，並把它的卑微之處公佈於世界；或者，如果它是崇高的，就用切身的經歷來體會它，在我下一次遠遊時，也可以作出一個真實的報導。