The chief end of man is to frame general ideas—and…no general idea is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.