Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined; more strict than any of which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
