Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.”

“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.”

“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!”

“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”

“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.”

“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”

“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”