Best 4 quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes on MyQuotes

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:— Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.