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

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...

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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

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

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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.

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light

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...

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are...

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

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...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means...

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...