12+ Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."