What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.Oliver Wendell Holmes
To reach the port of success we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, not drift or lie at anchor.Oliver Wendell Holmes
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.Oliver Wendell Holmes
