Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.


Over the teacups, by the author of The autocrat of the breakfast table [O.W. Holmes]. (ed. 1891)


What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them...

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them...

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them...

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them...