"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life."
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
"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 ..."
"But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to le..."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister."
"A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong."
"The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future."
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up."