82 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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?

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.