“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“[On Franklin D. Roosevelt:] Second-class intellect, first-class temperament.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before they come to a standstill... The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)