“ Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitab… Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half hour, or even six minutes, that will leave… Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to le… Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
