Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

Quotes

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

• You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

• The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

• Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.

• We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor.

• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.