Citations de Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

En anglais : " Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

En anglais : "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization."

En anglais : "No generalization is wholly true—not even this one. "

En anglais : "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."

En anglais : "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."

En anglais : "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."

En anglais : "Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body."

En anglais : "If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."