The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.