Checking in.............................

.....................................with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.” 

“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”

“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” 

“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.”

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” 

“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” 

“Greatness is not in where we stand but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

“Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.”