A man’s mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes
I despise making the most of one’s time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Systems die; instincts remain.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
We always exempt ourselves from the common laws. When I was a boy and the dentist pulled out a second tooth, I thought to myself that I would grow a third if I needed it. Experience discouraged this prophecy.
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.
A judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found the long-winded speeches of lawyers especially trying and advised them to take a course of reading risque books that they might learn to say things by innuendo.
