“ I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Exc… Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“ What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.