Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes
Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."
What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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.
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
A happy life is made up of little things ... a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.
The entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.
A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.
Heredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it.
