The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
---Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ----Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our moraility seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
-----Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe;
the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.
You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
---Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apologizing-a very desperate habit-one that is rarely cured.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ---Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.---Oliver Wendell HOlmes,Jr.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.----Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.---Oliver Wendell Holmes