--- title: "Best Friends Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "54 Friends quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Friends sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with_130660.png" --- > [Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with-their-friends-as-if-they/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with_130660.png) > [In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-reflection-of-a-man-s-own/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analysis_in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-re_1232610.png) > [We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-walk-alone-in-the-world-friends-such-as-we-desire-are-dreams-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_desire_we-walk-alone-in-the-world-friends-such_1090742.png) > [My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/my-friends-have-come-to-me-unsought-the-great-god-gave-them-to-me/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cf/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_my-friends-have-come-to-me-unsought-the_55510.png) > [We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-talk-of-choosing-our-friends-but-our-friends-are-self-elected/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_choosing-friends_we-talk-of-choosing-our-friends-but-our_1817882.png) > [Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/friends-should-be-like-books-easy-to-find-when-you-need-them-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_book_friends-should-be-like-books-easy-to-fin_1841540.png) > [The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-essence-of-friendship-is-entireness-a-total-magnanimity-and-trust/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/216/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_essence_the-essence-of-friendship-is-entireness_813534.png) > [I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-see-it-only-that-thyself-is-here-and-art-and-nature-hope-and-fate/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/965/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_absent_i-see-it-only-that-thyself-is-here-and-a_2739387.png) > [Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-friendships-hurry-to-short-and-poor-conclusions-because-we-have/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_character_our-friendships-hurry-to-short-and-poor_3219882.png) > [We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-say-that-every-man-is-entitled-to-be-valued-by-his-best-moment-we/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_beautiful_we-say-that-every-man-is-entitled-to-be_2191991.jpg) > [Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-friends-early-appear-to-us-as-representatives-of-certain-ideas/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/557/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_certain_our-friends-early-appear-to-us-as-repres_2811370.png) > [The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-only-sin-is-limitation-as-soon-as-you-once-come-up-with-a-man-s/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_alluring_the-only-sin-is-limitation-as-soon-as-yo_2501506.jpg) > [I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-know-nothing-which-life-has-to-offer-so-satisfying-as-the-profound/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_church_i-know-nothing-which-life-has-to-offer-s_3216413.png) > [We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-over-estimate-the-conscience-of-our-friend-his-goodness-seems/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_book_we-over-estimate-the-conscience-of-our-f_1485995.png) ## Other authors on Friends - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nishan-panwar-14.jpg) Nishan Panwar 79 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/nishan-panwar/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-ritu-ghatourey-5.jpg) Ritu Ghatourey 66 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/ritu-ghatourey/) - [Jennifer Elisabeth 48 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/jennifer-elisabeth/) - [Israelmore Ayivor 46 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/israelmore-ayivor/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Abhishek Tiwari 28 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/abhishek-tiwari/) - [Shannon L. Alder 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/shannon-l-alder/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-melchor-lim-61.jpg) Melchor Lim 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/melchor-lim/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-norden-71924.jpg) Norden 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/norden/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-taylor-swift-89132.jpg) Taylor Swift 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/taylor-swift/) ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friends/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "Best Friends Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with-their-friends-as-if-they/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with_130660.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with_130660.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_friends_men-have-sometimes-exchanged-names-with_130660.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-reflection-of-a-man-s-own/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analysis_in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-re_1232610.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analysis_in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-re_1232610.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_analysis_in-the-last-analysis-love-is-only-the-re_1232610.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We walk alone in the world. 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