And so of the other faculties.
Of course, you know, that isn’t the way the Phrenologists do. They go only by the bumps. What do you keep laughing so for? (to the boarders). I only said that is the way I should practise “Phrenology” for a living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
APHORISMS.
We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches.
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.