Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

William Ernest Hocking

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Thomas Jefferson

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

Charles Lamb

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

George Santayana

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Plautus