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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Friendship

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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

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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

Friendship buys friendship.

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

Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.145, Harvard University Press

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics