HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : Imitation is a necessity of human nature. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL : The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)