Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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?

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

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

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

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

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

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

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.