Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.“
• "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.“
• "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.“
• "The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.“
• "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.“
• "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.“
• "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.“

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