"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.












The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
"A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
"The only way to have a friend is to be one.
"Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I...