A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. — 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
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves. — 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
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me… — 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
“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is… — 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 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 purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In… — 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
“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
“On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — 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
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
