"What refuge is there for the victim..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”

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

“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.”

“Knowledge applied is productivity.”

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”