Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. — 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
We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.… — 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
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. — 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
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to… — 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
Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple at once. He must hold his hatreds also at arm's length,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. — 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
Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain… — 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
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
