"Do not be bullied out of your..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

“The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.”

“It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.”

“Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.”

“Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.”

“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

“You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it.”