1. “Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. “Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. “It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. “The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
5. “The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
6. “Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
7. “Science is the topography of ignorance.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
8. “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
9. “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
10. “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
11. “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. “One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
14. “A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
15. “Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
16. “A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
17. “Man has his will, but woman has her way.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
18. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
19. “Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
