"People who honestly mean to be true..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”

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

“The best servant does his work unseen.”

“In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.”

“Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.”

“Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.”

“Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.”

“I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.”

“I am nothing, truth is everything.”