Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Friendship

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103

• Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Book, Needs

• I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Best Friend, Good God

• Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, House, Shelter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

• 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

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Friendship, Prayer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Should, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Busy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

• I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Thanks, I Am Thankful

• We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Money, Real

• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

• Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Together, Way

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Death

  'Good-bye' (1847)

• The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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