Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.