Fresh air and innocence are good if you don’t take too much of them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis.
Rough work, iconoclasm, – but the only way to get at truth.
I have, in common with yourself, a desire to leave the world a little more human than if I had not lived; for a true humanity is, I believe, our nearest appraoch to Divinity, while we work out our atmospheric apprenticeships on the surface of this second-class planet.
Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The history of most countries has been that of majorities – mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death, treading down the ten-fold more numerous minorities.
Apologizing: a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcoming is from his apology. It is mighty presumptuous on your part to suppose your small failures of so much consequence that you […]
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears, which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
