223 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.