"A person is always startled when he..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

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

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

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

“People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.”

“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”

“It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.”

“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.”

“I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.”

“Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.”