It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that ma... - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"

"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."

"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."

"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."