Thanks, Jerry. It is a good one. In my DMDMQ, I offered this additional thought:
QUOTE NOTE: In forging this thought, Emerson was almost certainly influenced by a 1763 remark from Samuel Johnson. Speaking to his biographer James Boswell, he said about a contemporary: “But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
This quote made my day:
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks, Jerry. It is a good one. In my DMDMQ, I offered this additional thought:
QUOTE NOTE: In forging this thought, Emerson was almost certainly influenced by a 1763 remark from Samuel Johnson. Speaking to his biographer James Boswell, he said about a contemporary: “But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
So appropriate and so needed today
Thanks, Irene. I totally agree.