“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“It is by little things that we know ourselves; a soul would very probably mistake itself for another, when once disembodied, were it not for individual experiences which differ from those of others only in details seemingly trifling.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.