"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Friendship Tags: friend More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." "We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature." "There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly." More In Friendship "My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness."― Enrique Iglesias "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."― Oliver Goldsmith "Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I’ve found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."― Marilyn Hacker