More quotes by 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."
"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."
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
"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."
"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"