Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.

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

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

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

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

When in doubt do it.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

rouble creates a capacity to handle it.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.