Quote #201
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
- Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
- People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe.
- I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
- You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.