Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes