More From Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
- "A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
- "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."