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• His home! the Western giant smiles, And twirls the spotty globe to find i
  This little speck, the British Isles? 'T is but a freckle,--never mind it....
• You hear that boy laughing?--you think he 's all fu
  But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done...
• The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holme...
• Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holme
• As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr....
• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people. -- Oliver Wendell Holme
• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. -- Oliver Wendell Holme