Maxioms by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation read more
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.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground read more
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
