Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

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

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it."

"Have the courage to act instead of react."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

"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, time runs out."

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient."

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."