The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Friendship buys friendship.

The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.