"Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.