“Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“But as precedents survive like the clavicle in the cat, long after the use they once served is at an end, and the reason for them has been forgotten, the result of following them must often be failure...”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.