Quote #124
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
- 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.
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find t…
- A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
- In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
- Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.