Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God…

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke…

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience…

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you…

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles…

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more…

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government…

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing…

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power…

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its…

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born…

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that…

Beware how you take away hope from any human being…

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no…

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God…