I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Love Quotes

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle...

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform...

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to...

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to...

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought...

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are...

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him...

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Power is, in nature, the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend...

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...

This is why I studied literature in college. This is why I became a teacher:...