“ Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ The Last LeafI saw him once before,As he passed by the door,And againThe pavement stones resound,As he totters o'er the groundWith his cane.They say that in his prime,Ere the pruning-knife of TimeCut… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is th… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or revers… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a wom… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the wors… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and c… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
