We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected. — 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
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
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — 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
“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
Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.… — 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 lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out… — 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
The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far. — 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
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last… — 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
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
