Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Friendship
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press
Essays "Friendship" (1841)
"The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社
1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.66, Harvard University Press
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.145, Harvard University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”