Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light…

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them…

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth…

The Amen of nature is always a flower…

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a…

A new untruth is better than an old truth…

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often…

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum…

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history…

Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The…

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of…

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions…

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how…

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts…

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell…