“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Quote

“Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.”

“To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.”

“Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.”

“The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.”

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

“Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.”