As I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man's apprehensions, that competition from new races will cut deeper than working men's disputes and will test whether we can hang together or can fight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
man
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
man mind
The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
man faith
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
principles man
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
protection man
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
destiny repose man
For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
competition tests race man men
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
rules man
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
mind light
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
men
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase due process of law there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
opportunity doubt trials
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
rules duty
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