Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. World Quotations

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.