#or

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#only #rough #rough work #truth #way

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#always #damn #damned #generally #his

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#effort #inevitable #mode #pass #which

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#carry #comes #key #men #more

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#commonly #great #great men #men #nor

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#far #forty #forty years #hopeful #more

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#careful #his #man #more #principles

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#enough #had #had enough #itself #life

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#contract #eye #light #like #mind