Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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 Sr.

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, t…

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.