Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Old age is always fifteen years older than I am."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Old age is always 15 years older than I am."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

""Greatness is not in 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.""

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one that they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one that they sprung up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Greatness is not in 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."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation, evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!”"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"One flag, one land. One Heart, one hand. One nation, evermore."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men—from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; fold the whole Earth in peace."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes