“Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, vor dem man laut denken kann.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Emerson In His Journals
“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Essays: First Series
“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair;The fountains of my hidden lifeAre through thy friendship fair.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A friend may be nature’s most magnificent creation.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson