“ To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he… Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important th… Oliver Wendell Holmes
