The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, The medicines of the soul.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Books Quotes, Medicine Quotes

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

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

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

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want...

I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want...

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that...

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that...

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.