Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Thinkers

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse

Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation.

Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.

Sabbath is a day evidencing that He who ordained it, loved the poor.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.

Society is what draws the virtue out of what is best worth reading, as hot water draws the strength of tea-leaves.

Talking is one of the fine arts.

Woman is what governs the world world because beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.