Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship

A man is a god in ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Nature (1836), sec. 4

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · The source reads: “Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.” · Journal (May 1849)

More Friendship Quotes

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Cicero · From the dialogue on friendship.

A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust also away by his friends.

The Bible · Ecclesiasticus 13:21

This is the sort of company I should like to find in heaven. Stained perhaps—stained but positive. Not those flaccid sea anemones of virtue who can hardly woggle an antenna in the turgid waters of negativity.

Winston Churchill · Recorded in Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him, 1930

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“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“A man is a god in ruins.”

“People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

“I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.”

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

“A rich man beginning to fall is held up of his friends: but a poor man being down is thrust also away by his friends.”

“This is the sort of company I should like to find in heaven. Stained perhaps—stained but positive. Not those flaccid sea anemones of virtue who can hardly woggle an antenna in the turgid waters of negativity.”