“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson