John Andrew Holmes Quotes

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both