Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

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

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

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the...

I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy...

The best way to find happiness is not to search for it.

The best way to find happiness is not to search for it.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.