Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,—some of them,—and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to….
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson