Comprehensive information about Oliver Wendell Holmes including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. One of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century.. American physician poet professor lecturer and author This educational Oliver Wendell Holmes resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. Go to Quote / Comment
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Go to Quote / Comment
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Go to Quote / Comment
Talking is like playing the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. Go to Quote / Comment
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. Go to Quote / Comment