Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one’s powers towards some great end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Science … in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Blood is a destiny. One’s genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
![[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Picture Quote](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/the-constitution-is-an-experiment-as-all-life-is-an-experiment.jpg?x85372 "[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.")
