Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

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.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.