27 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.

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

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?

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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

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