Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes