Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth8 March 1841
CountryUnited States of America
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
It's a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.