Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quotes:

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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 woman~?