Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth8 March 1841
CountryUnited States of America
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.
You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.
It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.