The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Interpretation
Friends bring warmth and beauty to our homes and lives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote highlights the idea that the true value and charm of a home lie not in its physical decorations or possessions, but in the relationships and connections we cultivate with our friends. Each visitor adds a unique essence to our living space, making it a warm and inviting place filled with love and camaraderie.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of community, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted, the ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my heart. Predestined separation promises a future meeting.
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word
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