Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

"Those kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint, that he "Had better try Homoeopathy," are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding, that "at any rate it can do no harm.…"

"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!"

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer."

"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 are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on."

"Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. …"

"Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her."