"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve."
"When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is th..."
"if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows."
"The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong."
"We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. ."
"Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtne..."
"I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization."