Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes on history
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes on home
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes on home
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. Oliver Wendell Holmes on hope
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes on imagination
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes on knowledge
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. Oliver Wendell Holmes on learning
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes on love
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes on love
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes on men
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes on men
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes on money
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes on music
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! Oliver Wendell Holmes on music
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Oliver Wendell Holmes on nature
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. Oliver Wendell Holmes on religion
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes on science
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Oliver Wendell Holmes on science
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Oliver Wendell Holmes on society