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

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. ”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes 

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I would never use a long word where a short one would answer the purpose. I know there are professors in this country who 'ligate' arteries. Other surgeons only tie them, and it stops the bleeding just as well.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.

“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Rhythm and rhyme and the harmonies of musical language, the play of fancy, the fire of imagination, the flashes of passion, so hide the nakedness of a heart laid open, that hardly any confession, transfigured in the luminous halo of poetry, is reproached as self-exposure. ”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch. 3

“O mais importante da vida não é a situação em que estamos, mas a direção para a qual nos movemos.”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

“What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, 1809 - 1894

“What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to read a hundred? ”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”

—Oliver Wendell Holmes
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