Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”

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

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

“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.”