Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

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

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

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

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

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?

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

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