Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quotes:

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."

A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.