Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Mem-2-07a, line 16596“Better is it,' said Appollonius, 'on entering a small shrine to find there a statue of gold and ivory...”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Short, rhetorically-used proverb-style quote embedded in Fuller's own allegorical narrative, not a documented reading episode.