11 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on friendship

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

120. Happy is the house that shelters a friend!

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

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

123. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

124. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

125. 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.

126. 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 them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

213. The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

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

299. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor 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 their friendship.