Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? >>

The greatest genius is the most indebted person. >>

Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lam >>

Quotations about Friends and Friendship

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends. >>

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be br >>

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in >>

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo