"Nothing is so common-place as to wish..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”

“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...”

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

“Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.”

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

“Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,To signify thou camest to bite the world.”

“Man is his own worst enemy.[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]”

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”