A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful… — 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
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — 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
“Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.” — 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
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — 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
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear… — 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
“As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy… — 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
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — 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
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
