Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."Collection: Life
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!Collection: Love
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.Collection: Lying
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.Collection: Religious
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.Collection: Hurt
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.Collection: Race
America is the only place where man is full-grown!Collection: Military
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.Collection: Men
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.Collection: Numbers
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!Collection: Life
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.Collection: Song
The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.Collection: Years