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• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fu
  But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done...
• Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes of Harvard Medical School inhaled ether at a time when it was popularly supposed to produce such mystical or "mind-expanding" experience
  much as LSD is supposed to produce such experiences today....
• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)...
• Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi...
• Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.