Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thi >>

God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by si >>

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got throug >>

Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York t >>

A book is like a man -- clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful >>

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell