The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topics: Friendship Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Obedience alone gives the right to command

Obedience alone gives the right to command

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

We all boil at different degrees

We all boil at different degrees

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Give all to love; obey thy heart

Give all to love; obey thy heart

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

We are wiser than we know.

We are wiser than we know.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I...

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may...

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may...

All promise outruns performance.

All promise outruns performance.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give...

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession...

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and...