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.
– John Andrew Holmes
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
– John Andrew Holmes
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
– John Andrew Holmes
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.