Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.

Systems die instincts remain.

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.

Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.

One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.

Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.

Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.

Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.