A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the labors of fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict their best illumination comes from above, through the skylight.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If we are only as the potters clay Made to be fashioned as the artist wills, And broken into shards if we offend The eye of Him who made us, it is well.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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