Maxioms by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
