"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
- 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..."
"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."
"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
"We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth."
"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..."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"
"A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born."
"Science is the topography of ignorance."