Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The best servant does his work unseen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.