Jeff Ford

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

“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law

“We believed that it was most desirable that the North should win, we believed in the principle that the Union is indissoluable, we, or many of us at least, also believed that the conflict was inevitable, and that slavery had lasted long enough. But we equally believed that those who stood against us held just as sacred conviction that were the opposite of ours, and we respected them as every men with a heart must respect those who give all for their belief.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.”
― Herodotus