梭罗是美国文学史上的巨匠之一，他的著作中有许多经典名句，其中以他在《瓦尔登湖》中所说的话语最为著名。下面就来看看这些经典名句吧。

1. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“大多数人都过着默默无闻的绝望生活。”

2. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“我们的生活被琐事所消耗。化繁为简。”

3. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“如果你在空中建起了城堡，那么你的工作不会白费；因为那正是城堡所应该存在的地方。现在，为它们打好基础。”

4. “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“一件物品的代价，就是为它而牺牲的生命。”

5. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“真正的智慧在于知道自己一无所知。”

6. “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.”

“我去森林里，因为我希望过一种有意识的生活，只面对生活中的必要之事，看看我是否能从中学到些什么，而不是等到临死前才发现自己没有真正地活过。”

7. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

“一个人的富有程度，与他能够放弃的东西的数量成正比。”

8. “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”

“曾经有人问过我对什么事情的看法，并关注了我的回答，这是我所受到的最大的赞美。”

9. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

“与我们内心的世界相比，过去和未来都微不足道。”

10. “The sun is but a morning star.”

“太阳只是一颗晨星。”

11. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“我喜欢一个人，我从未遇到过比孤独更好的伴侣。”

12. “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”

“不要过于道德。你可能会因此错过很多生活。要超越道德，不要只是做一个好人，要为某些事情而做一个好人。”

13. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“友谊的语言不是言语，而是心意。”

14. “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

“我宁愿坐在南瓜上，享受独自的乐趣，也不愿挤在天鹅绒垫子上。”

15. “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

“忙碌并不足够，蚂蚁也很忙碌。问题是：我们忙碌着做什么？”