Quote #121
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Almost all people descend to meet.
- Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
- Thou art to me a delicious torment.
- The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.