Quotes
Quotes - Holmes
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.
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.
A child's hand in yoursâ what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
We must have a weak spot or two in our character before we can love it much.
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 the time in which it is used.
