Oliver Wendell HolmesA collection of 43 posts

Nature

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Music

A few can touch the magic string and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for ...

Music

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is ...

Money

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

Courage

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.

Courage

Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit pl...

Knowledge

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to l...

Imagination

Memories imagination old sentiments and associations are more readily reached...

Hope

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Home

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in...