Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last.

A general flavour of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.

Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.