223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.