Oliver Wendell Holmes

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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?

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom …

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

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

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were o…

Have the courage to act instead of react.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.