• I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
    "Law and the Court". Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, library.law.harvard.edu. February 15, 1913.