Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. HolmesThinkers

The Anesthetic is of three natural varieties: sleep, fainting, death.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

A Book is never bad — Even the foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

The City is, in every case, the place in whose center the axis of the earth sticks out visibly.

The Hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.

Independence is viewed as a threat — If a man is in a minority of one we lock him up.

Insight is vital — A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Language is the blood of the soul, sir, into which our thoughts run, and out of which they grow.

A Library is best to always be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.