The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
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.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.