Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Quotes

• “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and leve...”
• “Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, t...”
• “When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a correspo...”
• “The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music d...”
• “The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The me...”
• “There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his ...”
• “Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”
• “Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
• “Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
• “It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
• “Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
• “But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
• “Beware how you take away hope from another human being”
• “Science is the topography of ignorance.”