The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original...

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you...

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you...

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is...

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is...