Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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

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

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

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

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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

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

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

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 I was not God.