Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.


Speech to the Bar Association of Boston, in Speeches (1913), p. 85

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.

Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.

Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.

Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself.