Quotes from work

Worship

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship

Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Variant: The louder they talked of their honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Source: The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

“Shallow men believe in luck.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship

Worship
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship

Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Worship

Worship
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)